I was restless, too, and longed to be moving about.

So I sold off the furniture, paid my debts, and laid by the money that remained, for the child's use in the future.
"I had, some time before, met an old comrade travelling the country with a show.

I happened to meet him again, just as I was leaving, and he told me the name of a man, in London, who sold such things.

I left the child, for a year, with some people I knew, a few miles out of Southampton; came up to London, bought a show, and started.

It was lonely work, at first; but, after a year, I fetched the child away, and took her round the country with me, and for four years had a happy time of it.
"I had chosen this part of the country, and, after a time, I became uneasy in my mind, as to whether I was doing right; and whether, for the child's sake, I ought not to tell you that she was alive, and offer to give her up, if you were willing to take her.