I have been a curse to every one who has been kind to me, and I am going now where there will be nobody but strangers about me.

To leave Uncle George breaks my heart, but so does it break my heart to leave my precious mother and dear old Alec, who cries all the time and has now taken to his bed, I hear." She waited, but her name was not added to the list, nor did he raise his head.
"I deserve it all, I suspect," he went on, "or it wouldn't be sent to me; but it's over now.

If I ever come back it will be when I am satisfied with myself; if I never come back, why then my former hard luck has followed me--that's all.

And now may I talk to you, Kate, as I used to do sometimes ?" He straightened up, threw down his cane, and turned his shoulders so he could look her squarely in the eyes.

"If I say anything that offends you you can get up and walk away and I won't follow you, nor will I add another word.