Not long after, I put an advertisement in the papers, asking my son, if he saw it, to communicate with Mr.
Percival--that's the lawyer I was recommended to in London.

There was no answer; Joseph was in America at that time.

I hadn't much reason to like Mrs.Peckover and her daughter, but I kept up acquaintance with them because I thought they might hear of Jo some day.

And after a while I sent Jane to learn a business.

Do you know why I did that?
Can you think why I brought up the child as if I'd only had just enough to keep us both, and never gave a sign that I could have made a rich lady of her ?' In asking the question, he bent forward and laid his hand on Sidney's shoulder.