I fed her and nursed her, taught her her first words and her first prayer.

Why should I offer to give her up to him who, likely enough, would not accept the offer when it was made to him?
But I always intended to make it some day.

It was my duty to give her the chance at least; but I kept on putting off the day, till that Saturday when she was so nearly drowned; then I saw my duty before me." "I had, from the first, put aside a hundred pounds, to give her more of an education than I could do; but if it hadn't been for that fall into the sea, it might have been years before I carried out my plan.

Then I saw it could not go on any longer.

She was getting too old and too bold to sit quiet while I was showing my box.