And there was two wee barns; and she prayed him hard to confess the marriage, poor thing! But t'was a bootlese bene, and he would not allow they should bear his name, but their mother's; he was a hard man, and hed the bit in his teeth, and went his ain gait.

And having tired of her, he took in his head to marry a lady of the Barnets, and it behoved him to be shut o' her and her children; and so she nor them was seen no more at Mardykes Hall.

And the eldest, a boy, was left in care of my grandfather's father here in the George." "That queer Philip Feltram that's travelling with Sir Bale so long is a descendant of his ?" said the Doctor.
"Grandson," observed Mr.Peers, removing his pipe for a moment; "and is the last of that stock." "Well, no one could tell where she had gone to.

Some said to distant parts, some said to the madhouse, some one thing, some another; but neither she nor the barn was ever seen or spoke to by the folk at Mardykes in life again.

There was one Mr.Wigram that lived in them times down at Moultry, and had sarved, like the Captain here, in the king's navy in his day; and early of a morning down he comes to the town for a boat, sayin' he was looking towards Snakes Island through his spyin'-glass, and he seen a woman about a hundred and fifty yards outside of it; the Captain here has heard the bearings right enough.
From her hips upwards she was stark and straight out o' the water, and a baby in her arms.