We are living now on money I saved when Harry made so much more, and my father gave me fifty pounds when he was here, but he advised me not to tell Harry I had it.

I was to save it for days Harry had none--for the children.

O John, all this troubles me!" And John's face flamed up, for his family pride was keenly touched.

How could Henry Hatton humble his family and his own honor by letting the poor schoolmaster feed his wife and children?
And he threw aside then some considerations he had intended to make in Lucy's favor, for he saw that she already shared his anxiety, and so would probably be his best helper in any plan for Harry's salvation, from the insidious temptation by which he was assailed..