If you can find anything to be cheerful about when you're on the verge of starvation, I hope you'll enjoy yourselves, and not mind me.

I'm a poor, dependent creetur, and I feel I'm a burden." "Now, Rachel, that's all foolishness," said Timothy.

"You don't feel anything of the kind." "Perhaps others can tell how I feel better than I can myself," answered his sister, with the air of a martyr.

"If it hadn't been for me, I know you'd have been able to lay up money, and have something to carry you through the winter.

It's hard to be a burden on your relations, and bring a brother's family to this poverty." "Don't talk of being a burden, Rachel," said Mrs.Harding.