Poor, starved little beggars! I went out on the porch to get away from them.

My feelings seemed too easily aroused.

Hard indeed would it have gone with Jim Hoden's slayer if I could have laid my eyes on him then.

However, Miss Sampson and Sally, after the nature of tender and practical girls, did not appear to take the sad situation to heart.

The havoc had already been wrought in that household.