Nerves, they say, but just as real as your skin." He looked away from her to the man on the sofa.

"To have _that_, and be in poverty!" Turning away from the father, his glance met the calm eyes of the baby fixed on him with that gaze which was as old and as pitiless as philosophy.
"Ma, may I help myself ?" screamed one of the children, drumming loudly on the table.

"I'd rather have bread and molasses!" cried another; and "Oh, Ma, when we move to-morrow will you let me take the kitten I found ?" "Well, I've talked to the Governor," said Darrow, in his level voice which sounded to Stephen so unemotional, "and I think we can find a job for your husband." Suddenly the man on the sofa looked up.

"I voted against him," he whispered angrily.
Darrow laughed shortly.

"You don't know the Governor if you think he'd hold that against you," he replied.