There was old people, after working all their lives, going and being shut up in the workhouse, much worse fed and lodged and treated altogether, than--Mr Plornish said manufacturers, but appeared to mean malefactors.

Why, a man didn't know where to turn himself for a crumb of comfort.

As to who was to blame for it, Mr Plornish didn't know who was to blame for it.

He could tell you who suffered, but he couldn't tell you whose fault it was.

It wasn't HIS place to find out, and who'd mind what he said, if he did find out?
He only know'd that it wasn't put right by them what undertook that line of business, and that it didn't come right of itself.