‘Hush, Hannah! I have a word to say to the woman. You have done your duty in excluding, now let me do mine in admitting her. I was near, and listened to both you and her. I think this is a peculiar case—I must at least examine into it. Young woman, rise, and pass before […]
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‘Hush, Hannah! I have a word to say to the woman. You have done your duty in excluding, now let me do mine in admitting her. I was near, and listened to both you and her. I think this is a peculiar case—I must at least examine into it. Young woman, rise, and pass before […]
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Where do you come from?’ ‘I am a stranger.’ ‘What is your business here at this hour?’ ‘I want a night’s shelter in an out-house or anywhere, and a morsel of bread to eat.’ Distrust, the very feeling I dreaded, appeared in Hannah’s face. ‘I’ll give you a piece of bread,’ she said, after a […]
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The woman rose: she opened a door, through which I dimly saw a passage: soon I heard her stir a fire in an inner room; she presently came back. ‘Ah, childer!’ said she, ‘it fair troubles me to go into yond’ room now: it looks so lonesome wi’ the chair empty and set back in […]
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‘Listen, Diana,’ said one of the absorbed students; ‘Franz and old Daniel are together in the night-time, and Franz is telling a dream from which he has awakened in terror—listen!’ And in a low voice she read something, of which not one word was intelligible to me; for it was in an unknown tongue—neither French […]
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The light was yet there, shining dim but constant through the rain. I tried to walk again: I dragged my exhausted limbs slowly towards it. It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer. […]
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The light was yet there, shining dim but constant through the rain. I tried to walk again: I dragged my exhausted limbs slowly towards it. It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer. […]
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She stared at me. ‘Mother!’ she exclaimed, ‘there is a woman wants me to give her these porridge.’ ‘Well lass,’ replied a voice within, ‘give it her if she’s a beggar. T pig doesn’t want it.’ The girl emptied the stiffened mould into my hand, and I devoured it ravenously. As the wet twilight deepened, […]
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‘No,’ said she; ‘we do not keep a servant.’ ‘Can you tell me where I could get employment of any kind?’ I continued. ‘I am a stranger, without acquaintance in this place. I want some work: no matter what.’ But it was not her business to think for me, or to seek a place for […]
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‘Yes; two or three. Quite as many as there was employment for.’ I reflected. I was driven to the point now. I was brought face to face with Necessity. I stood in the position of one without a resource, without a friend, without a coin. I must do something. What? I must apply somewhere. Where? […]
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