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What right have you to have your path strewn with roses, and every pain spared from you; only to lift your voice and say, 'Let that be done, to see it done? to find life one long, sweet summer day of gladness and abundance, while they die out in agony by thousands, ague-stricken, famine-stricken, crime-stricken, age-stricken, for want only of one ray of the light of happiness that falls from dawn to dawn like gold upon your head?"
Did I have any idea of what was due to the position of my family in society? What would become of our children's "prospects"? What sort of life would my family lead and here the severe inflection of her voice convinced my crime-stricken conscience that nothing but a miracle and Mrs. Boyzy could have saved my family from utter social destruction if I had been allowed to have my way.
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