What is the matter now ?" For Jacintha was cackling very loud, and dismissing with ignominy two beggars, male and female.
She was industry personified, and had no sympathy with mendicity.

In vain the couple protested, Heaven knows with what truth, that they were not beggars, but mechanics out of work.

"March! tramp!" was Jacintha's least word.

She added, giving the rein to her imagination, "I'll loose the dog." The man moved away, the woman turned appealingly to Edouard.
He and Josephine came towards the group.

She had got a sort of large hood, and in that hood she carried an infant on her shoulders.