Is it any wonder that they are starving, and he growing rich?
Curse him, and all like him! I could see them hung!" And the woman set her teeth, and clenched her hand, in momentary but impotent rage.
In the meantime, Mrs.Gaston hurried home with the food she had obtained.

She occupied the upper room of a narrow frame house near the river, for which she paid a rent of three dollars a month.

It was small and comfortless, but the best her slender means could provide.

Two children were playing on the floor when she entered: the one about four, and the other a boy who looked as if he might be nearly ten years of age.

On the bed lay Ella, the sick child to whom the mother had alluded, both to the tailor and the shopkeeper.