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If it had been possible for Mercy to have continued to pay the rent of the wing herself, she would gladly have done so; but, at her suggestion of such a thing, Stephen had been so angry that she had been almost frightened. "I am not so poor yet, Mercy," he had exclaimed, "as to take charity from you! I think I should go to the alms-house myself first.
What though some slight it, it a cottage call, Give't the reproachful name of beggar's hall; Yea, what though to some it an eyesore is, What though they count it base, and at it hiss, Call it an alms-house, builded for the poor; Yet kings of old have begged at the door.
"And you will like to see the row of small, cheerful houses where some poor women come, some poor married folks when life has gone hard with them. See here is Walnut Street. Let us turn in. It is an old, old place that somebody left some money to build." "Old John Martin," said Andrew. "Yes, I have been here. It is a snug, pretty place, not an alms-house."
He left the episcopal house and went to the frontier of Provence, where he joined the hermit-laborers. He was previously acquainted with one of their set, who had stopped for several weeks at the episcopal alms-house for his cure." "Did the hermit-laborers establish a colony?"
Besides helping her brothers, she wanted to help other poor children. She started a school for poor children in her grandmother's barn. After a while she left off teaching. She was not well. She had made all the money she needed. But she was not idle. She went one day to teach some poor women in an alms-house. Then she went to see the place where the crazy people were kept.
"It is odd that a man like you should know anything of old Spanish proverbs!" "What? Of such a proverb, think you, Miles? A man without even a father or mother who never had either, as one may say and he not remember such a proverb! Boy, boy, I never forget anything that so plainly recalls the tomb-stone, and the basket, and the Alms-House, and Moses, and the names!"
"Is dat sumac fur Aunt Matilda?" said Uncle Braddock. "Yes, it is," said Kate, "and Harry's been gathering some, and we're going to pick enough to get her all she wants. Harry and I intend to take care of her now. You know they were going to send her to the alms-house." "Well, I declar!" exclaimed the old man. "I neber did hear de like o' dat afore.
"Then you were going to cook your breakfast, I suppose," said Harry. "Yes, child, if somebody 'ud come along and fetch me something to eat." "Haven't you anything at all in the house?" asked Kate. "Not a pinch o' meal, nor nothin' else," said the old woman; "but I 'spected somebody 'ud be along." "Did you know, Aunt Matilda," said Harry, "that they are going to send you to the alms-house?"
I should have done this three months ago, except for your strong feeling against it. I am very sorry for old Mrs. Jacobs; but it is her misfortune, not my fault. I have my mother to provide for, and my first duty is to her. Of course, Mrs. Jacobs will now have to go to the alms-house but I am not at all sure that she will not be more comfortable there than she has made herself in the cottage.
A few idle men lounged about the two inns, and the empty market-place, and the tradesmen's doors, and some old people were dozing in chairs outside an alms-house wall; but scarcely any passengers who seemed bent on going anywhere, or to have any object in view, went by; and if perchance some straggler did, his footsteps echoed on the hot bright pavement for minutes afterwards.
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