All we can do is to give her our gratitude for her munificence.

She has neither kith nor kin to wrong by her strange liberality to thee, sweet Gertrude; nor can I marvel that she should have come to love thee so well.

Sweet heart, this money will purchase the house upon the bridge which thy father tells us he is forced to sell.

I had thought that I would buy it of him for our future home.

But thou hast the first claim.