“No, sir!” and Fanny sobbed at the very recollection of her childhood's helplessness.
“Humph!” ejaculated the doctor; “you scarcely seem to have been born for a servant. Where did Mrs. Clink find you?”
“I do not know, sir. She never told me.”
“Ah!—oh! oh!—well! It's odd she never told you. So you do not know either who your father, or your mother, or your friends were?”
“No, sir,—I do not. But I remember———”
“Well,—go on,—you remember,—what do you remember? where did you come from? Do you know that?”
“I think, from Leeds, sir.”
“Leeds!” exclaimed the doctor; “and what else do you remember?”
“I can remember, sir,—though I can but just remember it,—that my father was taken away from me once, and I never saw him again.”
“And, what's your name?” continued the doctor in evident excitement.