And when I came in the house here she laid you in my arms.

God was very good to me that day." "He is always good," answered Phebe.
"So the parson teaches us," he continued; "but it was very hard for me to lose that money.

It struck me a dreadful blow, Phebe.

If I'd been twenty years younger I could have borne it; but when a man's turned sixty there's no chance.

And he robbed me of more than money: he robbed me of love.