I've got no money and so I tell you; but what's here you can keep, and you can have the skin off my back too, and I'll throw in the children beside.

They can drag a milk-cart as well as dogs.

Why don't you cut my throat at once and have done with it ?" "But, my good woman," cried Stubbe, horror-stricken, "what are you thinking of?
The Herr Doctor only means well by you." Wilhelm had come quite close to the poor thing, who had worked herself up into such a state of excitement that she was trembling from head to foot, and said in that gentle voice of his that always found its way to the heart: "You are worrying yourself unnecessarily, Frau Wander.

I have not come about the rent, and nobody is going to turn you out of your home.

Herr Stubbe here has been telling me about your troubles, and I came to see if we could not give you a little assistance." She stared at him speechless, with wide-open eyes.