But if you will change your mind now, and stay with me as my adopted daughter, I'll run the risk." "If it was anywhere else!" she answered with a wistful look into his face, "but not here.

If Mrs.Roland Sefton could find room for me I'd rather live with them than anywhere else in the world.

Only don't think I'm ungrateful because I can't stay here." "No, no, Phebe," he replied; "it was for my own sake I asked it.

As you grow older, child, you'll find out that the secret root of nine tenths of the benevolence you see is selfishness." Six weeks later all the arrangements for Phebe leaving her old home and entering upon an utterly new life were completed.

Simon Nixey, after vainly urging her to accept himself, and to give herself and her little farm and her restored fortune to him, offered to become her tenant at L10 a year for the land, leaving the cottage uninhabited; for Phebe could not bear the idea of any farm laborer and his family dwelling in it, and destroying or injuring the curious carvings with which her father had lined its walls.