Perhaps in new rooms I should not feel it so much.

I have always looked forward to being left alone at some time, and have thought I would still have my home; but I did not think it could feel like this.

I simply cannot bear it,--at any rate, not till I am stronger.

And besides, Stephen," and Mercy's face flushed red, "there is another thing you have not thought of: it would never do for me to live here alone in this house with you, as we have been living.

You couldn't come to see me so much now mother is not here." Poor Mrs.Carr! avenged at last, by Stephen's own heart.