But I was very ambitious . I meant to teach and earn my way through college . I meant to climb to the very top -- oh , I wo n't talk of that either . It 's no use . You know what happened . I could n't see my dear little heart-broken mother , who had been such a slave all her life , turned out of her home . Of course , I could have earned enough for us to live on . But mother COULD N'T leave her home . She had come there as a bride -- and she had loved father so -- and all her memories were there . Even yet , Anne , when I think that I made her last year happy I 'm not sorry for what I did . As for Dick -- I did n't hate him when I married him -- I just felt for him the indifferent , friendly feeling I had for most of my schoolmates . I knew he drank some -- but I had never heard the story of the girl down at the fishing cove . If I had , I COULD N'T have married him , even for mother 's sake . Afterwards -- I DID hate him -- but mother never knew . She died -- and then I was alone . I was only seventeen and I was alone . Dick had gone off in the Four Sisters . I hoped he would n't be home very much more . The sea had always been in his blood . I had no other hope .
Well , Captain Jim brought him home , as you XXXXX -- and that 's all there is to say .
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