The train on which he was a passenger collided with a freight train, and my poor father was among the passengers who were killed.

The news was almost too much for my poor mother, although she had not yet become an invalid.

It brought on a fit of sickness lasting for three months.

She has never been altogether well since." "After all, Frank, the gifts of fortune, or rather Providence, are not so unequally distributed as at first appears.

You are rich, but fatherless.