Of all the mean work--worth all that money, and sending her niece out to get sewing to do! I don't believe but what she's most starved her." It was true that Lois for the last week had not had enough to eat, but neither had her mother.

The two had been eking out the remnants of Lois's school-money as best they might.

There were many provisions in the pantry and cellar of the Maxwell house, but they would touch none of them.

Some money which Mr.Tuxbury had paid to Mrs.
Field--the first instalment from the revenue of her estate--she had put carefully away in a sugar-bowl on the top shelf of the china closet, and had not spent a penny of it.

After Lois began to sew, her slender earnings provided them with the most frugal fare.