"I prefer to manage this matter myself.

Then, your mother has no paper to show in proof of what you assert ?" "No, ma'am.

The colonel didn't think it was necessary.

He just told my mother, when she first came with the rent, that she needn't trouble herself to come again on that errand.

He said that she had nursed him when he was sick with the smallpox, and he'd never forget it, and that he'd bought the house expressly for her." "I am aware that your mother nursed my husband in his sickness," said Mrs.Preston, coldly.