Hear me, and look with pity on a mother's pleadings.

It is for them I plead.

Were I alone, no word of supplication would you hear.

I should leave here, and in the cold and turbid waters of Pearl river, find the rest I am denied on earth." "This is a very unaccountable thing to me," said Mr.Elder.

"You make an agreement to leave as soon as you fail to pay your rent, and now that that hour has arrived, instead of conforming to your agreement, I am beset with a long supplication.