It may be that even you will not believe me; but by the God in whom we both believe, I tell you nothing but the truth.

He attempted that and he failed; and then he accused me of the crime which he could not bring me to commit." "And what then ?" "Yes; what then?
Harry, I had a thing to do, and a life to live, that would have tried the bravest; but I went through it.

I stuck to him to the last! He told me before he was dying--before that last frightful illness, that I was staying with him for his money.

'For your money, my lord,' I said, 'and for my own name.' And so it was.

Would it have been wise in me, after all that I had gone through, to have given up that for which I had sold myself?
I had been very poor, and had been so placed that poverty, even, such poverty as mine, was a curse to me.