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It's there, Miss Matilda; you'll see it. When she's doing her washing and ironing, the place is so full of steam and so hot; and there ain't no room for the bed neither; and so she put Josh here." Sarah led the way to Mrs. Binn's room, and Matilda followed her in a bewildered state of mind. She saw as soon as the door was opened the truth of Sarah's statements.
The attic room was so small that Mrs. Binn's operations must have been carried on with the greatest difficulty; impossible Matilda would have thought them, but there were the facts. One dormer window in the roof was effectually shut up and hindered from its office of admitting air, by the pipe of the stove which passed out through the sash.
A little, withered, shrunken piece of humanity, so nearly the colour of the rags he lay upon that his dark shock of matted curly hair made a startling spot in the picture. "What's the matter, Sarah?" said Matilda in a distressed whisper. "This is Mrs. Binn's boy, Miss Matilda, that you came to see." "That? Why does he why do they put him there?" "Mrs. Binn's room is so small and so hot.
"Do you know of anybody in distress near here, Mrs. Staples?" Matilda asked. "Half of 'em is, I guess," was the answer. "But is there anybody you know?" "Mrs. Binn's little boy is sick," remarked Sarah, as her mother was pondering. "What's the matter with him?" "It's a kind o' waste, they say." "Not a fever, or anything of that kind?" inquired David.
You heard Miss Redwood and me talking of Lilac lane, and people that live in it?" "I heard nothing of Lilac lane; never did, till this minute." "O you were in the study with Mr. Richmond. It is a place in Shadywalk where some very poor people live." "Well?" said David. "But it is a delightful place compared to Mrs. Binn's tenement house.
"Come, sit down here and guess." "You are doing what Judy says." "Holes in purses?" said David. "Go on; what do you think we are making the holes with?" "Ridiculous stories about poor folks." "I'll let you judge how ridiculous they are," said David; and he told about the sick boy and Mrs. Binn's six foot apartment. Norton's face would not unbend.
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