When he saw me he was moved to do the very best for me.

He had brought me to Miss Spurgeon's and pleaded with her to take me in.

And she had consented to the ordeal of my care, because Zoe insisted upon it, offering to take the burden of waiting upon me and watching over me.

The Spurgeon house was quite the best in this town of 1000 people.

Sarah's father and mother were both dead, and she was living here with a grandmother, a woman now of more than eighty, whom I did not see until I began to go about the house....