Then, if you had known it, you might have thought you ought to keep her in, and not let her run about the country with your son; and altogether, it would not have been so comfortable for you or her.

I chose to put her at Sidmouth because I wanted to come here often, to hear how the squire was going on; for if he had been taken ill I should have told him sooner than I intended." "But why did you not tell him before ?" Mrs.Walsham asked.
"Just selfishness, ma'am.

I could not bring myself to run the risk of having to give her up.

She was mine as much as his, and was a hundred times more to me than she could be to him.

I took her a baby from her dead mother's arms.