I could not remember him; but I knew that he was my own uncle--my mother's brother--that he had taken me when a parentless infant to his house; and that in his last moments he had required a promise of Mrs. Reed that she would rear and maintain me as one of her own children.
Sólo sabía que mi tío, hermano de mi madre, me había recogido en su casa al quedarme huérfana y que, antes de morir, hizo prometer a su mujer que me trataría como a sus propios hijos.