I have earned a competence of my own--enough to live on comfortably.

We will go away where you and your father and mother will make their home with us.

Do not let the sins of the fathers embitter the lives of the children." "Mine has not sinned," said Shirley bitterly.
"I wish I could say the same of mine," replied Jefferson.

"It is because the clouds are dark about you that I want to come into your life to comfort you." The girl shook her head.
"No, Jefferson, the circumstances make such a marriage impossible.
Your family and everybody else would say that I had inveigled you into it.

It is even more impossible now than I thought it was when I spoke to you on the ship.