You wrong yourself to take yourself to task so severely for the sins of others.

But what has stirred you up so this time ?" Mrs.Strong understood Philip well enough to know that some particular case had roused his feeling.

He seldom yielded to such despondency without some immediate practical reason.
Philip sat up on the couch and clasped his hands over his knee with the eager earnestness that characterized him, when he was roused.
"Sarah, this town slumbers on the smoking crest of a volcano.

There are more than fifteen thousand people here in Milton out of work.

A great many of them are honest, temperate people who have saved up a little.
But it is nearly gone.