workhouse-company

Updated: May 5, 2025

"But it comes to me also that being such a real one such an out-and-outer his politeness may be so great that he may look another way, rather than peep and pry to see what the poor workhouse-company woman puts into the plate.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men