For twelve months I waited.

Those months were among the most desolate of my life.

No one took the slightest interest in me.
"Failing to find employment in Nottingham, I had to move away.

I was loath, very loath, to leave my dear widowed mother and my native town, but I was compelled to do so, and to come to London.
In the great city I felt myself unutterably alone.

I did not know a soul excepting a brother-in-law, with whom I had not a particle of communion.
"In many respects my new master very closely resembled the old one.
In one particular, however, he differed from him very materially, and that was he made a great profession of religion.