It turned out after, that the first occasion on which I had been mysteriously commissioned to him with a message which I did not understand, and which for that time he did not understand, was the evening of the day on which he had received the dead man's letter, appealing to himto him, a man whom he had wrongedon behalf of the child who was about to be left friendless in the world.

Ralph recalled a dim memory of his childhood, the tale of a misguided friend of his mother's who had left her husband for a more congenial companion, and who, years later, returning ill and friendless to New York, had appealed for sympathy to Mrs. Marvell.

Surely there is no one so friendless as the King and Queen of France!

He had been sent forth friendless into the world from an alms-house in Maryland.

Dr. Thackeray was compelled to own that "if his pupil were left naked and friendless on Salisbury plain, he would yet find his way to fame and riches.

So that this is maybe the real reason why many reasonably good and perfectly sincere men and women go almost friendless through useful and blameless lives.