Several times I've thought I must lie down under a hedge, and just die for very weariness.

But once I had a wife and a child up in the north,' he stopped.
'And are they dead ?' asked one of the young ladies in a soft sympathizing tone.

Her eyes met Philip's, full of dumb woe.

He tried to speak; he wanted to explain more fully, yet not to reveal the truth.
'Well!' said the warden, thinking he perceived the real state of things, 'what I propose is this.

You shall go into old Dobson's house at once, as a kind of probationary bedesman.