As soon as I get work I mean to take her out of this," said he looking disdainfully at the wretched tenement house, with its broken shutters and look of general decay.
* * * * * "Why Mother Graham is [the] meeting over?
You must have had a fine time, you just look delighted.

Did Joe go in with you, and where is he now ?" "Yes, he went with me, listened to the speeches, and joined the club, I saw him do it with my own eyes, Oh, we had a glorious time!" "Oh I am so glad," said Mary, her eyes filling with sudden tears.

"I do hope he will keep his pledge!" "I hope so too, and I hope he will get something to do.

Mr.Clifford was there when he signed, and Miss Belle was saying today that he wanted a clerk that would be a first r[at]e place for Joe, if he will only keep his pledge.

Mr.Clifford is an active temperance man, and I believe would help to keep Joe straight." "I hope he'll get the place, but Mother Graham, tell me all about the meeting, you don't know how happy I am." "Don't I deary?
Have I been through it all, but it seems as if I had passed through suffering into peace, but never mind Mother Graham's past troubles, let me tell you about the meeting." "At these meetings quite a number of people speak, just as we went in one of the speakers was telling his experience, and what a terrible struggle he had to overcome the power of appetite.