I don't want to hear about it." He lingered on day after day, and it was absolutely necessary for Jeffreys to go and seek work in order to keep even that wretched roof above their heads.
One evening when he returned with a few coppers, Jonah met him with a face brighter than any that he had yet seen.
"I've had some one here to-day.

A better sort than you.

One that's got a right to talk about what's better.

A lady, John, or else an angel.
Did _you_ send her ?" "I?
No; I know no ladies." "I don't know how it was, I could tell her anything--and, I say, John, it would make you cry to hear her voice.

It did me.