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For several days past I had been very poor in reference to my own temporal necessities, as well as in reference to the orphans. To-day we were especially poor, in both respects; but our kind Father remembered not merely the need of the dear orphans, but gave me also some money for my own personal expenses.
It seems to me that ye answer from your souls, like the fine vapor arising from precious stones, "O King Nezahualcoyotl, O royal Montezuma, your subjects sustain themselves with your soft dews. "But at last a day shall come which will cut away this power, and all these will be left wretched orphans.
"The daughters of General Simon!" cried Dagobert's wife, more and more astonished. "Yes, my dear Frances; I have brought them from afar not without some difficulty; but I will tell you that by and by." "Poor little things! One would take them for two angels, exactly alike!" said Frances, contemplating the orphans with as much interest as admiration.
At length she answered, "Yes, I will pay you half of my share in tribal land and money when I get them. In bygone days, brave young men of the order of the White-Horse-Riders sought out the aged, the poor, the widows and orphans to aid them, but they did their good work without pay. The White-Horse-Riders are gone. The times are changed. I am a poor old Indian woman.
Dec. 23. The need of to-day was eleven pounds. This sum the Lord gave me thus: Last evening I received one pound, together with a pair of trousers and gaiters, and a remnant of fustian for the orphans.
The words had not quite passed over my lips, when I perceived a letter lying on the table, which had been brought whilst we were in prayer. It was from my wife, containing another letter from a brother with 10l. for the Orphans.
At the end of last year there had been eight Orphans received into communion: during the present year fourteen have been received: in all twenty-two. Of those two who died during this year, one was an infant, and the other a girl about twelve years old. The latter, on the whole, a well behaved child, was for months ill in consumption before she died.
Most of the widows I know look pretty solid for that sort of thing, and as for orphans, it must take an awful lot of them. Meantime I am waiting, and if I ever get a large bunch of orphans all together, I'll stamp on them and see. I find, too, on inquiry, that you can also grind it out of clergymen. They say they grind nicely. But perhaps orphans are easier. How to Live to be 200
Clemence would not consent to treat her as bower-woman, and it was agreed that she should remain as one of the many orphans made by the civil war in England, without precise definition of her rank, and be only called by her Christian name.
Look at the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad scandal!" He was a short fat man with large blue eyes beneath swollen lids, and at the present moment some inner pressure seemed to increase their prominence. "What has that to do with women?" "Proves my point. Wouldn't have been such a racket over that scandal if half the widows and orphans in New England hadn't been pinched.
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