My mother fancies I shall one day be of use to her, and therefore keeps me with her.

Hints to this effect she has thrown out, when indulging in the uncontrollable fits of passion to which she is liable.

And yet I have no just reason to complain; for though she has shown me little maternal tenderness, and repelled all exhibition of affection on my part, she has treated me very differently from her other children, and with much greater consideration.

I can make slight boast of education, but the best the village could afford has been given me; and I have derived much religious culture from good Doctor Ormerod.

The kind ladies of the vicarage proposed, as you have done, that I should live with them, but my mother forbade it; enjoining me, on the peril of incurring her displeasure, not to leave her, and reminding me of all the benefits I have received from her, and of the necessity of making an adequate return.