Perhaps these retired in sufficient season." "Yes," said he; "his father left the house at an early period.

One or two of the servants likewise forsook him.

One girl, more faithful and heroic than the rest, resisted the remonstrances of her parents and friends, and resolved to adhere to him in every fortune.

She was anxious that the family should fly from danger, and would willingly have fled in their company; but while they stayed, it was her immovable resolution not to abandon them.
"Alas, poor girl! She knew not of what stuff the heart of Thetford was made.

Unhappily, she was the first to become sick.