... was nothing more than after their fortune and not worthy of marrying their daughter. As time went by it seemed that they would never be together, so they ran away and were married just after my mothers seventeenth birthday. The marriage was a success and for a long time they were wonderfully happy. The marriage was blessed with three daughters, Faith, Hope and myself Charity. We lived in a small cottage in the village of Wick just outside of Bath. During the time of our growing up my father was unable for some reason to paint portraits so he concentrated on landscapes, which provided just enough money for us to live on. One day the Earl of Wessex approached my father and asked him to paint a portrait of himself and his wife. The payment offered for this portrait was a very large sum of money that would change our lives so ...

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