"You can have no idea what it is, Walter, to see children suffer.

As for men, if it is the will of God, they must bear it, but it is awful for children.

I have had eighteen of them under my charge through the siege, and to see them getting thinner and weaker, every day, till the bones look as if they would come through the skin, and their eyes get bigger and bigger, and their voices weaker, is awful.
At last I could stand it no longer, and I have come out to fetch some food for them." "To fetch food!" Walter repeated.

"Do you mean to say you are thinking of going back again ?" "That I am," John said.

"I am going to take some food in to them.