I'd have food-hospitals if I could, and I'd give the children in the schools one good meal a day.

I'm sure the children of the poor go wrong and bad more through the way they live than anything.

If only they was taught right--not as though they was paupers! Give me enough nurses of the right sort, and enough good, plain cooks, and meat three times a week, and milk and bread and rice and porridge every day, and I'd make a new place of any town in England in a year.

I'd--" She stopped all at once, however, and flushing, said: "I didn't stop to think I was talking to you, sir." "I am glad you speak to me so," he answered gently.

"You and I are both reformers at heart." "Me?
I've done nothing, sir, not any good to anybody or anything." "Not to Jasper Kimber ?" "You did that, sir; he says so; he says you made him." A quick laugh passed David's lips.