They had no work, no income whatever, save what came from the Relief Committee.

Five of the children were playing in and out, bare-footed, and, like the mother, miserably clad; but they seemed quite unconscious that anything ailed them.

I never saw finer children anywhere.

The eldest girl, about fourteen, came in whilst we were there, and she leaned herself bashfully against the wall for a minute or two, and then slunk slyly out again, as if ashamed of our presence.

The poor widow pointed to the cold corner where her husband died lately.