She was no sooner a little relieved from her necessities by my cares, than she sent for her whole family to partake of the fruits of them.

Her sisters, sons, daughters, all except her eldest daughter, married to the director of the coaches of Augers, came to Paris.

Everything I did for Theresa, her mother diverted from its original destination in favor of these people who were starving.
I had not to do with an avaricious person; and, not being under the influence of an unruly passion, I was not guilty of follies.

Satisfied with genteelly supporting Theresa without luxury, and unexposed to pressing wants, I readily consented to let all the earnings of her industry go to the profit of her mother; and to this even I did not confine myself; but, by a fatality by which I was pursued, whilst mamma was a prey to the rascals about her Theresa was the same to her family; and I could not do anything on either side for the benefit of her to whom the succor I gave was destined.

It was odd enough the youngest child of M.de la Vasseur, the only one who had not received a marriage portion from her parents, should provide for their subsistence; and that, after having along time been beaten by her brothers, sisters, and even her nieces, the poor girl should be plundered by them all, without being more able to defend herself from their thefts than from their blows.