"She is a very old woman, and without anything to eat she may not live long." "They ought to take her into the Aged Widows' Home.

I'm sure I gave her _my_ votes." "God shall bless you for it.

But people say I was lucky enough to get my Benjamin into the Orphan Asylum, and that I ought not to have brought her from Poland.

They say we grow enough poor old widows here." "People say quite right--at least she would have starved in, a Yiddishe country, not in a land of heathens." "But she was lonely and miserable out there, exposed to all the malice of the Christians.

And I was earning a pound a week.