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So it came about that we hunted the township for a handmaiden; and it also came about that our inquiring steps led us to the poor-house. A stout, not over-brilliant-looking girl, about twelve years of age, was to be had for her board and clothes, and such schooling as we could give her, in country fashion, to be "bound out" till she should be eighteen.
Why, I'm going to New York myself to- night, to try to beg enough to keep me out of the poor-house." "But I can't ask Mr. Herman," Ninitta said, beseechingly. "In Heaven's name, Ninitta," exclaimed Fenton, "don't be an idiot. There's no sense in running away. Besides, what are you afraid of?" "But it might hurt Nino if I stayed," returned poor Ninitta.
Elizabeth Eliza pointed to the road they had come. A smile came over Mr. Sylvester's face; he knew the country well. "You mean the farm-house behind the hill, at the end of the road?" he asked. The Peterkins all nodded affirmatively. Ann Maria could not restrain herself, as broad smiles came over the faces of all the party. "Why, that is the Poor-house!" she exclaimed. "The town farm," Mr.
If a spirited Episcopalian takes an interest in the alms-house, and is put on the Poor Board, every other denomination must have a minister there, lest the poor-house be changed into St. Paul's Cathedral. If a Sandemanian is chosen president of the Young Men's Library, there must be a Methodist vice-president and a Baptist secretary.
As they rode on, Mary fancied that the country looked pleasanter and the houses better, than in the region of the poor-house; and when a sudden turn of the road brought into view a beautiful blue sheet of water, embosomed by bright green hills, her delight knew no bounds. Springing up and pointing towards it, she exclaimed, "Oh, please stop a moment and look. Isn't it lovely! What is it?" "That?
Her immediate relatives were dead; and the Odells had taken her from a feeling of pity, and a fear lest at last she would be sent to the poor-house. She had an odd way of talking incoherently to herself, and nodding her head at almost everything; yet she was good-tempered and always ready to do as she was told.
Stock made him sit down in the shop, while he fitted him with a pair of new shoes. The maid having washed and dressed him, Stock took him by the hand, and walked along with him to the parish poor-house to find his mother. They found her dressed in ragged, filthy finery, standing at the door, where she passed most of her time, quarreling with half a dozen women as idle and dirty as herself.
He visited the poor-house and the insane asylum, he was approached by swindlers of all types, and often he went to fairs and other resorts of public out-door amusement and watched the unwashed populace at its play. Beggars followed him on the streets, awaited him in their chosen coigns of vantage on the corners, or haunted him on the ferry-boat that took him each day from his home to his office.
It was not that she had chosen such dependence; nor, indeed, had she endeavoured to reject it. It had come to her as a matter of course, either that or the poor-house. As to earning her bread, except by that attendance which a poor friend gives, the idea of any possibility that way had never entered her head.
I forgot all my prudent resolutions, fell over head and ears in love, married the 'Rip, and have been the genteel pauper you see me ever since." "Consigned to such a poor-house as this," exclaimed Sylla melodramatically, and glancing round at the china and other knicknacks scattered about the room, "methinks that the stings of poverty are not so hard to bear." "Ah, yes," replied Mrs.
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