In a strange city mother and children were left without employment.

In her anxiety and distress a new trouble, the greatest and most poignant since Abijah's desertion, wrung her with a supreme grief.

James, the light and pride of her life, had run away from his master and gone to sea.

Lloyd, poor little homesick Lloyd, was the only consolation left the broken heart.

And he did not want to live in Baltimore, and longed to return to Newburyport.