The money your father left with me--the savings of his life--six hundred pounds--it is all gone.

He intrusted it to me, and made his will, appointing me your guardian; such confidence he had in me.

I have made both him and you penniless." "I think nothing of that," she answered.

"What should I ever have been but for you?
A dull, ignorant country girl, living a life little higher than my sheep and cattle.

We are rich enough, my father and me.