My father left her absolutely penniless.

He never saw her again; and he refused to go to her when she sent to him in her last moments on earth.
"She was back again among the strolling players when I first remember her.

It was not an unhappy time for me.

I was the favorite pet and plaything of the poor actors.

They taught me to sing and to dance at an age when other children are just beginning to learn to read.