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So when I can't, really can't, sleep, though I do try, I hear them talking, and the things Miss Webb says are a great relief to my feelings. She doesn't come to supper, orphan-asylum suppers being refreshments to stay from, not come to, but nearly always they make something on a chafing-dish. Something that's good, painful good.
If you cannot find friends here, you are a subject for an orphan-asylum. And you have not seen anybody?" "Well, I was late at breakfast." "And you have not looked on the register?" "Yes, I did run my eye over the register." "And you are standing right before me and trying to look as if you did not know that Irene Benson is in the house. I didn't think, Mr.
If they had had their way, I'd been out manicuring people's nails and washing heads for a living. And you in an orphan-asylum! That's what my people did for me! As it is, they shoved you out to work. What chance have you of meeting nice people? No, Claire, I don't care how they have treated me, but they might have given you a chance.
The Burgher Orphan-Asylum affords a comfortable home to several hundred boys and girls. These were accompanied by servants bearing foot-stoves and cloaks.
If you send me to any orphan-asylum, I'll send you to some place where you'll be better off, too, sir." "Meanin'?" Peter Champneys shot at the stout vestryman a glance like the thrust of a golden spear. "The cemetery, Mr. McMasters," said he, with the deadly South Carolina gentleness. The two stared at each other. It wasn't the boy's glance that fell first. "Threatenin' me, hey?
She abandoned all the gayeties of the world, and laid aside her sceptre and crown as queen of society. In the charity school and orphan-asylum, by the bedside of the sick and dying, and in the homes of poverty, relieving its wants, she was found to the day of her death.
After he left our church he took his place among the Presbyterians, and I remember, despite my broad-church tendencies, thinking that he was incurring serious danger by such apostasy; but as I noted him, year after year, devoting himself to the newly founded orphan-asylum, giving all his spare time to the care of the children gathered there, even going into the market and thence bearing provisions to them in a basket, I began to feel that perhaps his soul was safe, after all.
Again He has sent this day, in a remarkable manner, 5l., with the following letter, addressed to a brother: "My dear Friend, enclosed are 5l. for the Orphan-Asylum, the history of which is rather interesting. This money is of course due to her former master and mistress, with whom I have had several interviews on the subject.
No ill-nature was visible about him, yet he turned like a man in fierce self-defence on his partner, who followed Jess and stood also watching him. "Puttany, you fool! what have you brought these cursed patois into camp for?" "Joe La France vas my old pardner," softly pleaded the German. "Damn you, man, we can't start an orphan-asylum and widows' home! We'll get a bad name at the hotels.
She patched up her old house, and adopted five or six orphan-asylum kids, and I suppose the poor thing thinks she's having a good time." Even to the most prejudiced eye Annabel could not have looked beautiful at that moment. The venom that poisoned her spirit, disfigured her face like a scar. Hag-ridden by those unlovely twins, jealousy and hate, she looked for the instant prematurely old.
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