The idea of her wretchedness already affected her heart and contracted her mind.

The little I sent her fell a prey to the knaves by whom she was surrounded; she received not the least advantage from anything.

The idea of dividing what was necessary to my own subsistence with these wretches disgusted me, especially after the vain attempt I had made to deliver her from them, and of which I shall have occasion to speak.

Time slipped away, and with it the little money I had; we were two, or indeed, four persons; or, to speak still more correctly, seven or eight.

Although Theresa was disinterested to a degree of which there are but few examples, her mother was not so.