She had not the strength to do so.
"I don't see what you will do, Mrs.Mayberry," a neighbor who had often aided her by kind advice, said, in reply to the widow's statement of her unhappy condition.

"You cannot maintain these children, certainly.

And I don't see how, in your present feeble state, you are going to maintain yourself.

There is but one thing that I can advise, and that advice I give with reluctance.

It is to endeavor to get two of your children into some orphan asylum.