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"And I should like to give something good to the little grey workhouse boys," said Armine. "I should so hate always walking out along a straight road as they do." "And oh! Armie, then don't you think we may get a nice book to write out Jotapata in?" "Yes, a real jolly one. For you know, Babie, it will take lots of room, even if I write my very smallest." "Please let it be ruled, Armie.
But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable, the strong hand of the law is allowed to press heavily down on us. "Public officials have only words of warning to us warning that we must be intensely orderly and intensely peaceable, and they have the workhouse just back of all their warnings.
You want a bow-window to loll about in, do you? Shouldn't wonder if you don't want a servant-gal to do the work." Mrs. Gribble flushed guiltily, and caught her breath. "We're going to live as we've always lived," pursued Mr. Gribble. "Money ain't going to spoil me. I ain't going to put on no side just because I've come in for a little bit. If you had your way we should end up in the workhouse."
There was old people, after working all their lives, going and being shut up in the workhouse, much worse fed and lodged and treated altogether, than Mr Plornish said manufacturers, but appeared to mean malefactors. Why, a man didn't know where to turn himself for a crumb of comfort. As to who was to blame for it, Mr Plornish didn't know who was to blame for it.
I must send Zeff to the workhouse have him nicely whipped, I only charge him eighteen dollars a month for himself, and yet he will drink, and won't pay over his wages. Yes! he shall have it. The extent of the law, well laid on, will learn him a lesson. There's old Cato pays me twenty dollars a month, and Cato's seventy-four four years older than Zeff.
They had to enlarge the workhouse to take care of them, and four of our best football players were retired from circulation all through October. Think what that meant! The whole college went up, just before the game with Hambletonian, and knelt on the sidewalk before Judge Scroggs' house. He set the dog on us. Said afterwards he wished the dog had been larger and hadn't had his supper.
"I am so sorry," she faltered, "to have given you all this trouble. You must send me to a hospital or the workhouse anywhere." "You are sure that there are no friends to whom I can send?" he asked. "There is no one!" She closed her eyes and Tavernake sat quite still on the end of her couch, his elbow upon his knee, his head resting upon his hand.
This lien, however, only operates when he is destitute; and he can only exercise it by submitting to such conditions as the authorities impose, which when the workhouse test is enforced means loss of liberty. It was the leading "principle of 1834" that the lot of the pauper should be made "less eligible" than that of the independent labourer.
"Ah," he said, drawing a long breath, "there's the jail, Eppie; that's just the same: I aren't afraid now. It's the third turning on the left hand from the jail doors that's the way we must go." "Oh, what a dark ugly place!" said Eppie. "How it hides the sky! It's worse than the Workhouse. I'm glad you don't live in this town now, father. Is Lantern Yard like this street?"
I found, too, that unless one earns bread-and-butter, one has to sprint very fast to the workhouse door to prevent oneself starving before one gets there; so I dropped Bohemia and I dropped many other pleasant fictions as well. I took to examining pavements, saw how hard they were, had a look at the gutters, and saw how broad they were.
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