I know he'll find me; I must go back to-morrow." It was a long time before the family could pacify him and assure him of their power to protect him; but they did it at last, though they left him haunted with the thought that he might be exposed at any moment to the new companions of his life as a pauper and the son of a pauper.

The great humiliation had been burned into his soul.

The petty tyrannies of Tom Buffum had cowed him, so that it would be difficult for him ever to emerge from their influence into a perfectly free boyhood and manhood.
Had they been continued long enough, they would have ruined him.

Once he had been entirely in the power of adverse circumstances and a brutal will, and he was almost incurably wounded.
The opposite side of the street presented very different scenes.

Mrs.
Belcher found, through the neighborly services of Mrs.Dillingham, that her home was all prepared for her, even to the selection and engagement of her domestic service.