In their crudeness they instanced the care and tenderness which had been expended upon the little creature while it was alive; that it had had every attention from a skilled physician and a trained nurse, and even intimated that the excited members of the group had not taken part in this, and that it now lay with the nursery to decide that it should be buried as it had been born, at the county's expense.

It is doubtful if Hull-House has ever done anything which injured it so deeply in the minds of some of its neighbors.

It was only forgiven by the most indulgent on the ground that the residents were spinsters, and could not know a mother's heart.

No one born and reared in the community could possibly have made a mistake like that.

No one who had studied the ethical standards with any care could have bungled so completely.
We are constantly underestimating the amount of sentiment among simple people.