'We are poor people, ma'am, and are only wandering about.

We have nothing to do;--I wish we had.' 'You amaze me more and more,' said Mrs Jarley, after remaining for some time as mute as one of her own figures.

'Why, what do you call yourselves?
Not beggars ?' 'Indeed, ma'am, I don't know what else we are,' returned the child.
'Lord bless me,' said the lady of the caravan.

'I never heard of such a thing.

Who'd have thought it!' She remained so long silent after this exclamation, that Nell feared she felt her having been induced to bestow her protection and conversation upon one so poor, to be an outrage upon her dignity that nothing could repair.