"Of course, if she were able to change climate--" Yes, the accident of possessing money; a life to depend upon that! In another station--though, as likely as not, with no moral superiority to justify the privilege--the sick woman would be guarded, soothed, fortified by every expedient of science, every resource of humanity.

Chance to be poor, and not only must you die when you need not, but must die with the minimum of comfort, the extreme of bodily and mental distress.

This commonplace struck so forcibly upon Will's imagination, that it was as a new discovery to him.

He stood amazed, bewildered--as men of any thinking power are wont to do when experience makes real to them the truisms of life.

A few coins, or pieces of printed paper to signify all that! An explosion of angry laughter broke the mood.
Pacing, pacing, back and fro in the little room, for hour after hour, till his head whirled, and his legs ached.