... him, and when he hears afterwards that her health failed her he congratulates himself that he lost her. He can speak of a workhouse and a prison interior. But all is now well with him, for Mr. Wells has incited him George Meek to write this history, and ...

... to sleep out of the cold. It killed you in time. A man froze to death, or starved unless he went to the workhouses. He had never been in a workhouse, and the thought of one horrified him. Charity weakened him. He was afraid of it. No; he 'd go ahead with ...

... Worship, put in the policeman. They were sleeping together when I found her. I 'm afraid I shall have to remand you to the workhouse, little girl, said the Magistrate, till we see what can be done for you. They would not allow you to keep your dog there ...

... and Co.), is a sort of peg whereon to hang disquisitions on the education of boys and girls, on strong-minded women, on workhouse management, on Ritualism and Church decoration, and on politics generally, and a framework for descriptions of scenes that ...

... are very well aware, the land does not belong to him, but to the orphan cousin, whom he has taken as an infant out of the workhouse, where a series of unto ward chances had placed him, and, after a fashion, clothed and fed hating the lad all the while precisely ...

... that they do. I don't know what you think about the pier, my son, but it 's the only thing that stands between us and the workhouse the only source of income you and I have left. ...

... home and I will nurse you back to health, Jim. He spat upon the ground. Home he retorted savagely, I 'd sooner rot in the workhouse than come home to you She shrank back, appalled before the hatred in his eyes one last effort she made. Ah, Jim, remember ...

... GEORGE GETS ON By Daisy Mace Fdgietont. George stood outside the workhouse gates with his mother, waiting to go in for the night. He was tall for eleven, and the old suit that charity had bestowed upon him a year ago was small for him now and hung in ...

... silly to please mc, and you must take the consequences. And I hope before you die, Martin, and when you find yourself in the workhouse, that you'll be sorry you didn't treat mo better when you had somebody to seo after you, and to keep a house over your soft ...

... doesn't exist. Look at all I've done for you both. Why, Eve, I've boomed you and Adam everywhere. And when we're in the workhouse you'll come on visiting days with a kind manner and a penny bun. The whole thing has been a gigantic failure. ft When I knew ...

... 'Steady, old chap,' says he. 'Maybe you haven't got it.' But I had. And they found out that my mother Ah They had it from the workhouse where I was born and she died, for my granny had told the prison officers all about me before she went aloft, and so they ...

... newlv-found parent, and when asked to choose between the two men he left without compunc tion the one who had saved him from the workhouse to go with the one whose action might have sent him there. Thus he went out of England and out of James William Bygott's ...