She waited, looking sympathetic; for Nick's eyes would have drawn sympathy from a stone, and Jessy Jones had not even a pebble in her composition.

" "Oh, if that's all, I" "Have you seen the lady, over in the annex, in number twenty-three?" "Yes," said Jessy.

" "If not better," Jessy corrected him.

And he shook hands with Jessy Jones.

When sixteen years of their married life had passed, they were living in a single room in the crowded street of R. Every penny of the inheritance was gonethree children had diedthree survived; a girl of fifteen years, whom the mother was educating to be a teachera boy of twelve who was living at home, and Jessy, a pale, delicate, little struggler for life, three years old.

When sixteen years of their married life had passed, they were living in a single room in the crowded street of R. Every penny of the inheritance was gonethree children had diedthree survived; a girl of fifteen years, whom the mother was educating to be a teacherboy of twelve who was living at home, and Jessy, a pale, delicate, little struggler for life, three years old.

Jessy found it hard work to breathe, and at times, I almost indulged a wish that she might be speedily released.

Jessy Birt, the ferryman's little girl.