She was upstairs.

He threw himself into a chair, and there she found him, looking ghastly.
"Oh, mother! what shall I do ?" "What is the matter, love ?" "She is false; she is false.

She has gone up to London with that Coventry." APPENDIX.
EXTRACT FROM HENRY LITTLE'S REPORT.
The File-cutters.
"This is the largest trade, containing about three thousand men, and several hundred women and boys.

Their diseases and deaths arise from poisoning by lead.

The file rests on a bed of lead during the process of cutting, which might more correctly be called stamping; and, as the stamping-chisel can only be guided to the required nicety by the finger-nail, the lead is constantly handled and fingered, and enters the system through the pores.
"Besides this, fine dust of lead is set in motion by the blows that drive the cutting-chisel, and the insidious poison settles on the hair and the face, and is believed to go direct to the lungs, some of it.
"The file-cutter never lives the span of life allotted to man.