You don't know what it is to be in dread of starving." "I do," said Christian, solemnly.

It was true.
The shudder which came over her at thought of these remembered days obliterated every feeling about the girl except the desire to help her, blameworthy though she was, in some way that could not possibly injure any one else.
Suddenly she recollected that Mrs.Ferguson was in great need of some one to take care of Mr.Ferguson's old blind mother, who lived forty miles distant from Avonsbridge.

If she spoke to her about Miss Bennett, and explained, without any special particulars, that, though unfit to be trusted with children, she might do well enough with an old woman in a quiet village, Mrs.Ferguson, whose kind-heartedness was endless, might send her there at once.
"Will you go?
and I will tell nobody my reasons for dismissing you," said Christian, as earnestly as if she had been asking instead of conferring a favor.

Her kindness touched even that bold, hard nature.
"You are very good to me; and perhaps I don't deserve it." "Try to deserve it.

If I get this situation for you, will you make me one promise ?" "A dozen," "One is enough--that you will give up Sir Edwin Uniacke." "How do you mean ?" "Don't meet him, don't write to him--don't hold any communication with him for three months.