I said, 'I suppose you and your wife are still living in the old place ?' "'Yes,' he replied, 'if you can call it living.

It's a hard struggle with so many of us.' "He said he did not know how he should have managed if it had not been for the help of Julia's father.

He said the captain had behaved more like an angel than anything else he knew of.
"'I don't say as he's one of your clever sort, you know, sir,' he explained.

'Not the man as one would go to for advice, like one would to you, sir; but he's a good sort for all that.' "'And that reminds me, sir,' he went on, 'of what I've come here about.
You'll think it very bold of me to ask, sir, but--' "I interrupted him.

'Josiah,' I said, 'I admit that I am much to blame for what has come upon you.