The children are all in the house to this day, and very comfortable they are in comparison.

As to the mother, there was no taming her at all.

She had been a quiet, hard-working woman, I believe, but her misery had actually drove her wild; so after she had been sent to the house of correction half-a-dozen times, for throwing inkstands at the overseers, blaspheming the churchwardens, and smashing everybody as come near her, she burst a blood-vessel one mornin', and died too; and a happy release it was, both for herself and the old paupers, male and female, which she used to tip over in all directions, as if they were so many skittles, and she the ball.
'Now this was bad enough,' resumed Mr.Bung, taking a half-step towards the door, as if to intimate that he had nearly concluded.

'This was bad enough, but there was a sort of quiet misery--if you understand what I mean by that, sir--about a lady at one house I was put into, as touched me a good deal more.

It doesn't matter where it was exactly: indeed, I'd rather not say, but it was the same sort o' job.