It sounds easy enough--jest a little interest money to pay every year, an' all this money down; but I tell you 'tis like a leech that sucks at body and soul.

You get so the mortgage looks worse than your sins, an' you pray to be forgiven that instead of them.

I know.

Don't you have a mortgage put on your house, Paulina Maria Judd, or you'll rue the day.

I'd--steal before I'd do it!" Paulina Maria made no response; she was quite pale again.
"I should think you'd be afraid Henry would go entirely blind if you didn't have something done for him," said Belinda Lamb.
"I be," replied Paulina Maria, sternly.