For the little room that Lizzy Glenn occupied including fire, she paid seventy-five cents a week.

But, as the house was old, the windows open, and the room that had been cut up into smaller ones a large one; and, moreover, as the person who let them and supplied fuel for the stove took good care to see that an undue quantity of this fuel was not burned she rarely found the temperature of her apartment high enough to be comfortable.

Those who occupied the other two rooms, in each of which, like her own, was a bed, a couple of chairs, and a table, with a small looking-glass, were seamstresses, who were compelled, as she was, to earn a scanty subsistence by working for the slop-shops.

But they could work many more hours than she could, and consequently earned more money than she was able to do.

Her food--the small portion she consumed--she provided herself, and prepared it at the stove, which was common property.
On returning from the tailor's, as has been seen, she laid her bundle of work upon the bed, and seated herself with a thoughtful air, resting her head upon her hand.