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for the support of this poor family, whose wants
increased, with the increasing rigour of the season.
{ ?} and almost naked, Becky and her
children had to go daily into the slashes to
eat the brush-wood, which was their only fuel.
Often would Lucy (who was now wholely confined
to her bed), as she watched the bright flames these fag-
gots afforded, and saw how quickly they
expired
think that
the hours of happiness she had known
were as bright and as short lived, and perhaps
her life itself would be as soon extinguished.
When left alone with Becky, she often
suffered in common with her children from
the ill humour, which continual want
produced, for the poor woman's temper was
as much affected as her faith, by
these trials.