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It was a common mode of charity in those days a common thing for rich men to do to found an almshouse or a hospital, and endow it, for the support of a certain number of old and destitute men or women, generally such as had some claim of blood upon the founder, or at least were natives of the parish, the district, the county, where he dwelt.
They stood aside to let us go by, the boys pulling their caps and the girls dropping a curtsy, when they knew that it was a poor drowned body passing; and as I saw the children I thought I saw myself among them, and I was no more a man, but just come out from Mr. Glennie's teaching in the old almshouse hall. Thus we came to the Why Not? and there set him down.
The manor-place, or "Palace," as it was called, has disappeared, but the almshouse and school remain, witnesses of the munificence of the founders. The poor Duke, favourite minister of Henry VI, was exiled by the Yorkist faction, and beheaded by the sailors on his way to banishment.
And with this strange speech, mystical to the last, she rode away into the setting sun, on the gray donkey, looking more like an almshouse widow than ever. As for Miss Greeby, she strode out of the camp and out of the Abbot's Wood, and made for the Garvington Arms, where she had left her baggage.
The eldest of these boys, who was not over ten or twelve, told the court that he had seen his grandmother cause an oak to be blown up by the roots during a calm. The charges against Joan Upney concerned chiefly her dealings with toads, those against Joan Prentice, who lived in an Essex almshouse, had to do with ferrets.
What can you do? Much! Think of that poor boy's weary life, and of the sadder years that lie still before him. What will become of him when his mother dies? The almshouse alone will open its doors for the helpless one. But who can tell what resources may open before him if stimulated by thought. Take him, then, and unlock the doors of a mind that now sits in darkness, that sunlight may come in.
'Fifteen hundred devils! cried I, 'FIVE hundred would rot his principles, paralyze his industry, drag him to the rumshop, thence to the gutter, thence to the almshouse, thence to 'WHY put upon ourselves this crime, gentlemen? interrupted the poet earnestly and appealingly. 'He is happy where he is, and AS he is.
"If I did that wholly, I would go straight to this dragon's den and snatch the fair maiden home to my castle." "That would be romantic, but a little too daring, even for my enthusiasm." "You may be reassured. No one really follows the heart in these days at least, those who do land in jail Of the almshouse." As he lit his cigar he observed that his hand trembled.
In America, nothing awaited him but that worst form of disappointment which comes under the guise of a long-cherished and late-accomplished purpose, and then a year or two of dry and barren sojourn in an almshouse, and death among strangers at last, where he had imagined a circle of familiar faces.
"But she is not a bit poor. She oughtn't to go into an almshouse if she is rich," said Susy. "Of course she mustn't go into an almshouse if she is rich; but she doesn't look rich." "She is quite rich. I think she has saved three hundred pounds. You must call that rich." "I'm afraid I don't," said Kathleen. Susy was silent for a moment.
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