Ten days afterwards, I laid her mother by the side of her father.

No answer had come to the letters he had written to you, while he had been ill, though in the later ones he had told you that he was dying.

So, I looked upon the child as mine.
"Things had gone badly with me.

I had been able to take no lodgers, while they were with me.

I had got into debt, and even could I have cleared myself, I could not well have kept the house on, without a woman to look after it.