Thomas Jessop said to me, 'That little Ursula--'" "Is her name Ursula ?" And I called to mind the little girl who had tried to give some bread to the hungry John Halifax, and whose cry of pain we heard as the door shut upon her.

Poor little lady! how sorry I was.

I knew John would be so infinitely sorry too--and all to no purpose--that I determined not to tell him anything about it.

The next time I saw Dr.Jessop I asked him after the child, and learned she had been taken away somewhere, I forgot where; and then the whole affair slipped from my memory.
"Father," said I, when he ceased talking--and Jael, who always ate her dinner at the same time and table as ourselves, but "below the salt," had ceased nodding a respectful running comment on all he said--"Father ?" "Well, my son." "I should like to go with thee to the tan-yard this afternoon." Here Jael, who had been busy pulling back the table, replacing the long row of chairs, and re-sanding the broad centre Sahara of the room to its dreary, pristine aridness, stopped, fairly aghast with amazement.
"Abel--Abel Fletcher! the lad's just out of his bed; he is no more fit to--" "Pshaw, woman!" was the sharp answer.

"So, Phineas, thee art really strong enough to go out ?" "If thou wilt take me, father." He looked pleased, as he always did when I used the Friends' mode of phraseology--for I had not been brought up in the Society; this having been the last request of my mother, rigidly observed by her husband.
The more so, people said, as while she lived they had not been quite happy together.