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Updated: October 13, 2025
This lady said, "they are like a string of charity-school girls going to church on a Sunday morning." Their penurious lord keeps down their pin-money to the lowest point, and is not more liberal to his ladies than to his other subjects. Former sultans were accustomed to allow their ladies half a dollar a day, but these have but twopence, or at least fourpence.
The numerous and many-colored congregation, the white surpliced choristers, the charity-school children in their uniforms surrounding the altar, all framed in by the dark old oak screens with their quaint readings, and partially vividly illuminated by occasional gleams of strong sunlight which poured suddenly through the colored windows, presented a beautiful picture.
Gardiner was very zealous for the support of the Ladies' charity-school, in the parish of St. Sepulchre. It is confined to females; and, I am told, it afforded a hint for the story of Betty Broom in The Idler. The late ingenious Mr. Mickle, some time before his death, wrote me a letter concerning Dr.
"I fancy I could have expressed that better," thought the critic; but he did not say it aloud, and that was already Something! By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN There was in the charity-school among the other children a little Jewish girl, so clever and good; the best, in fact, of them all; but one of the lessons she could not attend the one when religion was taught, for this was a Christian school.
'Eleanor is no more fitted to be trusted with such an amount of money in her own hands than is a charity-school girl. Still Mrs Grantly made no reply. 'But I have done my duty; I can do nothing further. I have told her plainly that she cannot be allowed to form a link of connection between me and that man. From henceforward it will not be in my power to make her welcome at Plumstead.
In a letter to the same gentleman he writes, 'The gout has within these four days come upon me with a violence which I never experienced before. It made me helpless as an infant. And in another, having mentioned Mrs. Williams, he says, 'whose death following that of Levett, has now made my house a solitude. She left her little substance to a charity-school.
'Or to stand well in the opinion of others! I am putting it on low grounds. 'I know what you are going to say Go and live in the country, and set up a charity-school. 'I say no such thing. I only ask you to be cautious in your manners, to make Mr. Finch of more importance, and not to let yourself be followed by your cousin Again Georgina burst into her 'thorn crackling' laugh. 'Poor Mark!
I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her to have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of new; I confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, who will know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her not to come into the market-place for a fortnight; they told me I did bravely.
Extraordinary as this is, it will appear more so when it is remembered that of these men one was originally a shoemaker, another a printer at Hull, and a third the master of a charity-school at Bristol.
It's certain that, as I kept glancing at the boy and his sea kit and his bunch of flowers, my mind went back to the January morning, sixty-five years back, when the coach took me off for the first time from the village where I was born to a London charity-school. I was worse off than the boy in the omnibus, for I had just lost father and mother.
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