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"However could thou afford it?"
"Sometimes we spend money we cannot afford."
"To be sure we do--and are always sorry for it. Thou should have brought
Martha up here and sent her mother to London by herself."
"Jane would not go without her."
"I'm astonished at thee! I am astonished at thee, John Hatton!"
"I did not want her to go. I said all I could to prevent it."
"That was not enough. Thou should not have permitted her to go."
"Jane thought the change would do her good."
"Late hours, late dinners, lights, and noise, and crowded streets, and
air that hes been breathed by hundreds and thousands before it reaches
the poor child, and----"
"Nay, mother, that's enough. Count up no more dangers. I am miserable as
it is. How goes all with you?"
"Why, John, it goes and goes, and I hardly know where it goes or how it
goes, and the mischief of it all is this--some are getting so used to
the Government feeding and clothing them that they'll think it a
hardship when they hev to feed and clothe themselves.
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