Starting from the table, he said, looking at Mrs.Scragg-- "Come!" And Mrs.Scragg arose and followed her indignant spouse.
"Served him right," remarked Burton, in a low voice, bending a little towards Miriam, who sat near him.

"I hope we shall now be rid of the low-bred fellow." Miriam was too much disturbed to make a reply.

All at the table felt more or less uncomfortable, and soon retired.

Ere dinner time, Mr.and Mrs.Scragg, with their whole brood, had left the house, thus reducing the income of Mrs.Darlington from thirty-five to twenty-three dollars a week.
At dinner time, Mrs.Darlington was in bed.

The reaction which followed the excitement of the morning, accompanied as it was with the conviction that, in parting with the Scraggs, insufferable as they were, she had parted with the very means of sustaining herself, completely prostrated her.