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On the contrary she falls from one ignominy to another until, by a gross abuse of a public charity, she ends her days in the almshouse! One further instance may be cited of Crabbe's persistent effort to awaken attention to the problem of poor-law relief. In his day the question, both as to policy and humanity, between indoor and outdoor relief, was still unsettled.
The green paint was scraped and splintered along the left side. "He must have come home by himself. How far, do you suppose?" "Not far, driving with his left hand, and faint." "He probably wasn't faint till he struck the indoor heat and the tobacco smoke." "He's come at least five miles. Look at that red clay on her sides.
About ten o'clock at night Hugo Luttrell was seen entering the courtyard at the back of the house, where keepers, grooms, and indoor servants were collected in a group, discussing in low tones the event of the day.
It is notorious that in summer the heat is that of a furnace, but even then it is bearable because it is a dry heat, like that of our indoor furnaces.
She arrived amidst a clamor of children and fowls, to find the adult members of the family gathered in the big living-room of the farmhouse instead of occupied, as usual, about the indoor and outdoor work. For the Dupays were no sluggards. "Oh, Mademoiselle Ruth!" cried Henriette, and ran to meet her.
"Well, but in Cocaigne," said Jurgen, "this eudaemonism was considered an indoor diversion." "And did you ever hear of a satyr going indoors?" "Why, save us from all hurt and harm! but what has that to do with it?" "Do not try to equivocate, you shining idiot! For now you see for yourself you are talking nonsense. And I repeat that such unheard-of nonsense irritates me," said the Satyr.
'What did you do; kill your man in a duel? Roland sighed and bowed his head. 'Then you cannot go away and peach, so I'll give you a bit of our indoor history. You saw these as went out to-day. Joe will go to some comfortable farm house and ask for a job saween wood. He can be very good natured and obligeen; and pretty soon he gets the run of the house.
His outstanding character, his ways and gestures, irresistible even when offensive, hold us while he is in our presence. In these repressed indoor days, we like a swaggering man who does justice to the size of the planet. We run after biographies of extraordinary monarchs, poets, bandits, prostitutes, and see in them magnificent expansions of our fragmentary, undeveloped, or mistaken selves.
You or I can watch a tiger for hours and not make head or tail of it in a spiritual sense, that is whereas an urchin simply smiles with rapture, isn't the least amazed, and wants to stroke the "nice pussy." It was a soft spring afternoon, the garden was thronged with visitors and all the indoor animals seemed to be wondering how soon they would be let out into their open-air inclosures.
"What's all that about Sir Thomas?" said he to his daughter in a low voice as soon as the Molletts had left the bar. "Well, I don't just know," said Fanny. She was a good daughter, and loved her father, whose indoor affairs she kept tight enough for him. But she had hardly made up her mind as yet whether or no it would suit her to be Mrs. Abraham Mollett.
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