bring another orphan into a family already half-orphaned doesn't seem right
to me."

"Don't worry, sir, a little more work doesn't worry Teresa Rouland. She
will have to get up a little earlier and go to bed a little later, and that
will be all."

"Well, Teresa, I'll think about it, and it needs to be 'thought about' a
good deal."

"And why do you say that, sir? One doesn't have to reflect long about doing
good."

"Well, I'll tell you why I hesitate. I'm sure that someone else could much
better replace the parents of this orphaned girl. I must confess that for
my part I don't feel equal to the task."

"Sir, would you like to know what I think? You have said to yourself, 'From
the time that my wife died life has become a burden, and if it wasn't for
the children I would have died of grief, but for love of them I must work
and live. Therefore, with my heart torn and desolated as it is, I don't
feel called upon to take any responsibility upon myself other than that of
my own children!'"

"There is a good deal of truth in what you say, Teresa."

"Yes, sir, but it is very bad, very bad, if you will let me say so! I know
I ought not to talk so, as I'm only a poor old servant; but remember, I was
the one that brought up the lovely woman that we all mourn for, and I knew
her before you did, sir, and I loved her as if she were my own child. When