But it was no use.

He was as hard as a rock; and at last I felt that it was useless, and used to see him come and go with hopeless apathy.

No, Ellen, there are no words can describe what I suffered.

I appealed to the girl who waited on me daily, but who came only once a-day, and always after dark.

I might as well have appealed to the four walls of my room; the girl was utterly stolid.