"Nay, there was naught but her, and she was housekeeper;" and of her, reader, I could not bear to ask the relief for want of which I was sinking; I could not yet beg; and again I crawled away.
Contestó que no había nadie sino ella, y a ella, lector, no fui capaz de pedirle lo que necesitaba. Otra vez, pues, comencé a errar.