The result may be foreseen.

He managed to spend or waste the whole and when Godfrey was twenty-one, he and his mother were penniless.

Andy, who was now sole representative of the firm of Graves & Burke, and in receipt of an excellent income, heard of the misfortunes of his old enemy, and out of regard to the memory of his old benefactor voluntarily offered Mrs.
Preston an allowance of five hundred dollars.

It cost her pride a great deal to accept this favor from the boy she had looked down upon as "only an Irish boy," but her necessity was greater than her pride, and she saw no other way of escaping the poorhouse.

So she ungraciously accepted.