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We kept her a spell, and then her old man' brother's girl came for her and took her off; and the last I heard, the girl was dead, and she was in the poor-house somewhere east. She was born there, I b'lieve." "No she warn't, either," said the landlady, who for some minutes had been aching to speak. "No she warn't, either. I know all about it.
'And Master or Mister Sloppy? said the Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what. 'A love-child, returned Betty Higden, dropping her voice; 'parents never known; found in the street. He was brought up in the with a shiver of repugnance, the House. 'The Poor-house? said the Secretary. Mrs Higden set that resolute old face of hers, and darkly nodded yes.
This wretched man had succeeded in finding some one who would give him his food food enough to keep himself alive for such work as he could do in spite of his rheumatism, and this work to the last he would not abandon. Even this was better to him than the poor-house. But then, as long as a man found work out of the poor-house, his wife and children would not be admitted into it.
The Louvre thus became a sort of genteel poor-house, while king and court spent their time in the more ample country-house behind the Meudon hills. By 1750 the Louvre had become little more than an immense ruin, humbled and desecrated; a veritable orphan.
"The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," remarked the officer with emphasis, as he turned from me to see that his directions touching the removal of Mr. Hammond to the poor-house were promptly executed. In my wanderings about Cedarville during that day, I noticed a small but very neat cottage, a little way from the centre of the village.
Things had undergone a transformation about the poor-house, and Jim stopped and inquired tenderly for Tom Buffum, and learned that soon after the escape of Benedict the man had gone off in an apoplectic fit. "He was a pertickler friend o' mine," said Jim, smiling in the face of the new occupant, "an' I'm glad he went off so quick he didn't know where he was goin'. Left some rocks, didn't he?"
As the population then increased, and consequently the number of patients, space was wanting in which to house them, for the dilapidated Poor-house whither they were carried was no longer large enough to accommodate them all. Therefore the parish, aided by the owner of the factory, built a hospital for the whole district, and the site of the old Poor-house was chosen for it.
At the end of the row was an extremely starved-looking animal; and he was being stoutly defended by his owner, Al Todd, against the aspersions of the drug clerk. "All that horse needs," said Al Todd, "is a little something to eat. What do you expect of a horse that is just out of the poor-house? There's a real horse. Look at his framework. Look at them legs. Look at how he's ribbed up."
There was little occasion to spend money, but still they were compelled to use some. One day it was some weeks from the time when they started Luke turned to Ernest with a sober face. "Ernest," he said, "I think you'll have to leave me at the next poor-house." "Why, Luke?" "Because my money is nearly all gone. I started with fifteen dollars. Now I have but one." "But I have plenty left."
"Knew I couldn't do anything! Do you suppose me or Sarah would have let all the sister we've got go to the poor-house whilst we had a roof over our heads? We'd took you right in, either one of us." "I was afraid Silas an' Cephas wouldn't be willin'."
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