Nothing but the generous promptings of your heart can I hold up before you to extend the charity I now solicit." "You have come here to peg again," he observed, "but I cannot give you anything.

Gootness! ven vill te place pe rid of all te peggers ?" "I cannot help my position," she said.

"A cruel fortune has deprived my of him who used to support me, and I am now left alone with my children to eke out the wretched existence of a pauper.

Last night I was turned out of my room by the man who left here a few seconds ago, because I could not pay for my rent.

One of my children was sick, but he cared not for that.