. The Hoosier school-master : a novel . cs would say that it was anoverwrought scene. As if all the world were as cold as they!All I can tell is that this refined woman had all she coulddo to control herself in her eagerness to get out of her prison-house, away from the blasphemies of Mowley, away from theinsults of Jones, away from the sights and sounds and smellsof the place, and, above all, her eagerness to fly to the littleshocky-head from whom she had been banished for two seemed to her that she could gladly die now, if she coulddie with that flaxen head upon her bosom. And so, i
. The Hoosier school-master : a novel . cs would say that it was anoverwrought scene. As if all the world were as cold as they!All I can tell is that this refined woman had all she coulddo to control herself in her eagerness to get out of her prison-house, away from the blasphemies of Mowley, away from theinsults of Jones, away from the sights and sounds and smellsof the place, and, above all, her eagerness to fly to the littleshocky-head from whom she had been banished for two seemed to her that she could gladly die now, if she coulddie with that flaxen head upon her bosom. And so, in spite of the opposition of Bill Joness son, whothreatened her with every sort of evil if she left, Ralphwrapped Mrs. Thomsons blue drilling in Nancy Sawyers shawl, 163 THE IIOOS1EU SCHOOL-MASTER. and bore tlic feeble woman off to Lewisburg. And as they droveaway, a sad, childlike voice from the gratings of the upperwindow, Good-by! good-by! Ralph turned and saw that itwas Phil, poor Phil, for whom there was no deliverance. And. GOD HANT FOEGOT us, MOTHER. all the way back Ralph pronounced mental maledictions on theDorcas Society, not for sending garments to the Five Points orthe South Sea Islands, whichever it was, but for being so blind A CHARITABLE INSTITUTION. 169 to the sorrow and poverty within its reach. He did not know,for he had not read the reports of the Boards of State Charities,that nearly all alms-houses are very much like this, and thatthe State of New York is not better in this regard than In-diana. And he did not know that it is true in almost all othercounties, as it was hi his own, that Christian people do notthink enough of Christ to look for him in these lazar-houses. And while Ralph denounced the Dorcas Society, the eager,hungry heart of the mother ran, flew toward the little white-headed boy. No, I can not do it; I can not tell you about that am sure that Miss Nancy Sawyers tea tasted exceedinglygood to the pauper, who had known nothing
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