That of which you have had cause to complain yesternight is but an example of the evil to which I am subjected.' 'And your brothers and sisters ?' I asked; 'how hath this circumstance affected them ?' The road was bleak and long, so that the old soldier's gossip was a welcome break to the tedium of the journey.
'They have all succumbed,' said Saxon, with a groan.

'Alas, alas! they were a goodly company could they have turned their talents to better uses.

Prima was our eldest born.

She did well until she attained womanhood.

Secundus was a stout seaman, and owned his own vessel when he was yet a young man.