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After his funeral, the expenses exhausted all that was left of their

money--only a few pounds were left when the furniture was sold, and

"we were obliged," said Lettice, "to give up the dear little

parsonage. It was a sweet little place. The house was covered all over

with honeysuckles and jessamines; and there was the flower garden in

which I used to work, and which made me so hale and strong, and aunt

Montague used to say I was worth a whole bundle of fine ladies.



"It was a sad day when we parted from it. My poor mother! How she kept

looking back, striving not to cry, and poor Myra was drowned in tears.



"Then we afterwards came to London. A person whom we knew in the

village had a son who, was employed in one of the great linen

warehouses, and he promised to try to get us needlework. So we came to

London, took a small lodging, and furnished it with the remnant of our

furniture. Here we worked fourteen hours a day apiece, and we could

only gain between three and four shillings each. At last mother died,

and then all went; she died and had a pauper's funeral."



From this room the orphan girl removed soon after their mother's

deceased, and located among the poor of Marylebone street, where Mrs.

Danvers accidently met with the two sisters, in one of her visits

among the poor, and for whom she obtained the work which led to the

unexpected meeting related in the previous story.