He took her from the strolling players, and surrounded her with every luxury that a woman could desire in a house of her own.
"I don't know how long they lived together.

I only know that my father, at the time of my first recollections, had abandoned her.

She had excited his suspicions of her fidelity--suspicions which cruelly wronged her, as she declared to her dying day.

I believed her, because she was my mother.

But I cannot expect others to do as I did--I can only repeat what she said.