None knows better ner me how hard trouble's to bear.' Her voice trembled as if with some physical pain; he only answered by a sound of incredulous surprise.
'I'll tell ye the whole on't, Johnnie.

Ye sees, we lived i' Yarm--mother and me.

Mother, she sewed books fur a book-binding man; an' we'd a little coming in as father'd saved.

Well, mother, she was feared lest I'd fall into rough ways like, an' she kep' me in a good bit, an' there was a man as helped i' the book-binding----' she stopped, and then said half under her breath-- 'His name was Dan'el, Dan'el McGair, it was.' 'Go on, Jen.' 'He was a leaen man and white to look at.

He was very pious, and knowed lots o' things.