If only you could travel once by one of those! Between station and station there's scarcely a man or boy in the carriage who can keep awake; there they sit, leaning over against each other, their heads dropping forward, their eyelids that heavy they can't hold them up.

I tell you it's one of the most miserable sights to be seen in this world.

If you saw it, Miss Waltham, you'd pity them, I'm very sure of that! You only need to know what their life means.

People who have never known hardship often speak more cruelly than they think, and of course it always will be so as long as the rich and the poor are two different races, as much apart as if there was an ocean between them.' Adela's cheeks were warm.

It was a novel sensation to be rebuked in this unconventional way.