miseraple

Updated: June 18, 2025

Now, there are folks about here that complain that old Madam Littlepage and her young ladies don't visit the poor." "Vell, if deys be hard-hearted, und hast no feelin's for der poor and miseraple " "No, no; that is not what I mean, neither. As for that sort of poor, everybody allows they do more for them than anybody else about here. But they don't visit the poor that isn't in want."

James Fenimore Cooper - The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1.: Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts