[Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders]@TWC D-Link bookBeautiful Joe CHAPTER XXXV BILLY AND THE ITALIAN 5/12
Oh, Margaret! when will men cease to be fools? What does the Lord think of them when they say, 'Am I my brother's keeper ?' And the other poor creatures burned to death their lives are as precious in his sight as Mrs. Montague's." Mr.Morris looked so weak and ill that Mrs.Morris, like a sensible woman, questioned him no further, but made a fire and got him some hot tea.
Then she made him lie down on the sofa, and she sat by him till day-break, when she persuaded him to go to bed.
I followed her about, and kept touching her dress with my nose.
It seemed so good to me to have this pleasant home after all the misery I had seen that night. Once she stopped and took my head between her hands, "Dear old Joe," she said, tearfully, "this a suffering world.
It's well there's a better one beyond it." In the morning the boys went down town before breakfast and learned all about the fire.
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