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Little notice was taken of him, however, for every one else was, if not doing the same thing, at least working up to the utmost extent of his ability. Before midnight all was over. The fire was what the cook termed black out. The furniture, more than half destroyed, was re-housed.
"It's a little strange to think, isn't it, that while we in London go on groaning and moaning about insanitary houses, and making our small attempts here and there, half of the country poor of England have been re-housed in our generation by these same landlords no fuss about it and rents for five-roomed cottages, somewhere about one and fourpence a week!"
If I had been allowed, I should have set the whole thing right a couple of months ago; I should have re-housed some of the people, closed some of the cottages, repaired others. Mr. Melrose stopped everything. There again what good could I do by throwing up? I had plenty of humdrum work elsewhere that was not being interfered with work that will tell in the long run.
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