But when I see these cottages, and the water, and the children, I ask what right we have to anything we get.

I had some friends in London who were Socialists, and I followed and agreed with them, but here one _sees_! Yes, indeed!--it _is_ too great a risk to let the individual alone when all these lives depend upon him.

Uncle Robert was an eccentric and a miser; and look at the death-rate of the village--look at the children; you can see how it has crushed the Hardens already.

No, we have no right to it!--it ought to be taken from us; some day it will be taken from us!" Aldous Raeburn smiled, and was himself again.

A woman's speculations were easier to deal with than a woman's distress.
"It is not so hopeless as that, I think," he said kindly.