At her right hand there was another rickety chair, by the help of which she raised herself up from her hard bed.

She said that she had never been up stairs during the previous twelve months, but had lain there, at the foot of the stairs, all that time.

She had two daughters.

They were both out of the house; and they had been out of work a long time.
One of them had gone to Miss B_'s to learn to sew.

"She gets her breakfast before she starts," said the old woman, "an' she takes a piece o' bread with her, to last for th' day." It was a trouble to her to talk much, so we did not stop long; but I could not help feeling sorry that the poor old soul had not a little more comfort to smooth her painful passage to the grave.