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Sad And Appalling As Are Some Of The D.E...
moinerit or two , not exactly a ' \ cellar where the water rat may swim" but where rats do nevertheless scuttle and scamper and peer
frbm t 3 ie cellars , decaye we d boards w © t of in broad knw day . light , that is , daylight as broad as may
!) _^ But we are early , St . Paul ' s is striking seven ; and , though it Is a ' bitter /' ¦ ¦ _Square February Cit morning All is , tumult we must immedi pause atel on y beyond our "way its . precincts This is
and yet there , is not y . a soul stirring here . Yes , here come two _halfclad—^ -and to all appearance , half-starved—little girls . And , see ,
they have come to a stand before a grim , "in chancery" looking the hoxi . ill se , -conditioned arid , haying trees pulled which the hell shiver , they in stand the p pati iercing ently gusts gazing while on
their On closer own teeth observation are playing remark an involuntary that the chit left -hit hand —chit of - each chatter child -chit is . you
bound upi , and , what is equally singular , both children appear to be * affected with some cutaneous disease .
But now the door is opened , and the dirtiest of maids in the dirtiest of nightcaps appears , and then retreats with rapid and
_xipon vulgar those strides children . At . tw Then elve those o ' clock murk last y ni upper ght windows she shut were the solemn bril door
tones liantly announced illuminated the , nor hour did . they One blink of the when children ; St . Paul proceeds ' s in at once
last up-stairs of the , leaving indoor the hands other has to entered shiver . just In sixty within minutes the door a hundred till the
females have been admitted , there being a sort of flying rush as eig Then ht is striking came the in " slow outdoors and . varied " The tones first from is a good adjacent -looking churches well . -
, dressed young woman , and her summons is answered by the principal , who , without a " good morning , " and evidently understanding instantlbut returned
the girl ' s errand , withdrew y , soon bearing a considerable parcel . " Now here's thirty bunches" said she with peculiar emphasis .
" I must have them on Saturday , morning . They ' re for Leech arid Vamp " 'Very ire— well you , know ma ' am what , I'll they have are them —~ I must done have , " said ' em the all g in irl . "
cheerfullv . . ' The _*\ You girl promise looked , " surprised said the — lad of y , c rather ourse— nervousl -she could y . do thirty . The
promise "With was no very given heavy confidentl heart y . tlie girl tripped along ; the sun . had
broken , forth , and the sun in early spring is always animating . But what ails the girl now ? Is she faint ? Why that gasping ,
sudden and why perturb does she ation not it proceed was l ? ing Whatever within that was parcel the cause ; she of had her
lanced withinand started as y one who has received aniortal g , wound
. " Well might she be afraid I shouldn't get ' em done , " she _miirinured to herselfas with slow and weak steps she again moved on .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/21/
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