There were the new minister of Fair View parish and his wife,--they might do.

He would give them two thousand pounds of sweet-scented a year for the child's maintenance.

Oh, she should be well cared for! He would--if he thought of it--send her gifts from London; and when she was grown, and asked in marriage, he would give her for dowry a hundred acres of land.
As the strengthening rays of the sun, shining alike upon the just and the unjust, warmed his body, so his own benevolence warmed his heart.

He knew that he was doing a generous thing, and his soul felt in tune with the beamy light, the caroling of the birds, the freshness and fragrance of the morning.

When at last the child awoke, and, the recollection of the night coming full upon her, clung to him, weeping and trembling, he put his arm around her and comforted her with all the pet names his memory could conjure up..