Hannah, though not so charming, clearly possessed both energy and sense--qualities highly necessary to a poor man's wife.

Hannah's father was a pious man, and was 'doing well'-- a thrifty, saving man, no doubt.

He would have instilled into her lessons of economy and virtue; and, later on, she might possibly come in for a little something.

She was the eldest of a large family.

She was sure to have had to help her mother a good deal.