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The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not.
You must and shall get that fortune between you, or we shall be bivouacking in the workhouse before you can say Jack Robinson! My heart too truly knows the signs full well!" Mollie recalled these expressive sentences, and sighed in sympathy. "Poor old Trix! too bad that she should be left at home to bear the brunt, while we are living in the lap of luxury.
It is but yesterday, so to speak, since the Old Square, with its sedate looking houses disappeared, including that of Edmund Hector, the friend of Dr. Johnson, and many of us can readily recall to mind the old-fashioned Birmingham Workhouse standing in Lichfield Street that poor, dirty thoroughfare which doubtless furnished a fair number of occupants for the afore-mentioned institution.
But we have all seen angels in this position," he added, glancing at Rastignac; "there is this about women that is sublime: they understand nothing of money; they do not meddle with it, it is no affair of theirs; they are invited guests at the 'banquet of life, as some poet or other said that came to an end in the workhouse." "How do you know this when I do not?" d'Esgrignon artlessly returned.
istration attempted to satisfy the women by putting the amendment through the House and not through the Senate. It was during Miss Paul's imprisonment that the forty-one women went in protest to the picket line and were sent to the workhouse, as narrated in the previous chapter.
Not far from the workhouse two inns face each other in Barrack Street 'The Tiger' upon one side of the way, 'The Seven Stars' upon the other; and at the moment when Henry Ironsyde's dust was reaching the bottom of his grave at Bridetown, a young man of somewhat inane countenance, clad in garments that displayed devotion to sport and indifference to taste, entered 'The Tiger's' private bar.
I have given this book its name because it is at my own door, in the Barony of Kiltartan, I have heard a great number of the stories from beggars, pipers, travelling men, and such pleasant company. But others I have heard in the Workhouse, or to the north of Galway Bay, in Connemara, or on its southern coast, in Burren. I might, perhaps, better have called the little book Myths in the Making.
Their trade never produces a man of genius; 'tis confined to the whip and workhouse and at most can lead but to the gallows. FIESCO. A charming prospect! I should like to hear something of a superior class. MOOR. The next are spies and informers tools of importance to the great, who from their secret information derive their own supposed omniscience.
'You must remember, sir, that it was a dark night, that I had never been in that neighbourhood before, and that I was not in a condition to pay much attention to locality. 'All of which is granted, but how far was it from Hammersmith Workhouse? 'Possibly under half a mile.
Temporarily she might do well enough, and Doctor Banks wanted to get home to dinner; so away went the housekeeper in a cab with a letter from the doctor, and in two hours came back bringing with her a pale pretty young woman whose name was Jane Harris, and who, her husband having gone abroad and left her with a child which she had just lost, was reduced to apply at the workhouse.
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