I used to take in sewing before the accident to my eyes, and that helped a good deal to pay expenses.

But now I am helpless, and my husband devotes all his time to me, although I beg him to work the farm and try to earn some money.
"I wouldn't have minded the poverty; I wouldn't mind being blind, even, if Lucy had been spared to me.

I have had to bear so much in my life that I could even bear my child's death.

But to have her disappear and not know what has become of her--whether she is living miserably or lying at the bottom of the river--it is this that is driving me distracted." Kenneth and Beth remained silent for a time after Mrs.Rogers had finished her tragic story, for their hearts were full of sympathy for the poor woman.

It was hard to realize that a refined, beautiful and educated girl had made so sad a mistake of her life and suffered so many afflictions as a consequence.