Now go on." Presently Ruth read, "accruing." "That was the second sixpence.

Four sixpences it were in all, besides six-and-eightpence as we bargained at first, and three-and-fourpence parchment.

There! that's what I call a will; witnessed according to law, and all.

Master Thurstan will be prettily taken in when I die, and he finds all his extra wage left back to him.

But it will teach him it's not so easy as he thinks for, to make a woman give up her way." The time was now drawing near when little Leonard might be weaned--the time appointed by all three for Ruth to endeavour to support herself in some way more or less independent of Mr and Miss Benson.