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Grateful! when I haven't even a change of clothes!" "Go to the relief-rooms and get a change of under garments," Dr. Lively advised. "I won't go there and wait round like a beggar, and have them ask me a million of prying questions, and all for somebody's old clothes," Mrs. Lively declared.
"Now, my dear," her husband remonstrated, "I have been a great deal in the relief-rooms, and I believe there are no unnecessary questions asked only such as are imperative to prevent imposition." "The things don't belong to them any more than they do to me." "Perhaps not as much. They were sent to the destitute, such as you, so you shouldn't mind asking for your own," the doctor argued.
"Think what a mean little story I should have to tell! I do wish you'd bought that house. If we'd lost fifty thousand! but a few bed-quilts and those old frogs and bugs and dried leaves of yours! The most miserable Irish woman on DeKoven street can tell as big a story of losses as we can." "I'll go to the relief-rooms and get some clothes for you," said the doctor decidedly: "I'm not ashamed."
"Office and living rooms that would answer at all cannot be had for less than one hundred and fifty dollars a month, and that paid in advance, and I haven't a cent." "What in the world are we going to do?" "I'll tell you what I've been thinking about: I met in the relief-rooms yesterday an old college acquaintance Edward Harrison.
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