We stopped at Cyrus of Persia.

Since she has attained years of maturity, she has read other books of romantic tendency and of late she had read with great interest a book she got through Mr.Lebeziatnikov, Lewes' Physiology--do you know it ?--and even recounted extracts from it to us: and that's the whole of her education.

And now may I venture to address you, honoured sir, on my own account with a private question.

Do you suppose that a respectable poor girl can earn much by honest work?
Not fifteen farthings a day can she earn, if she is respectable and has no special talent and that without putting her work down for an instant! And what's more, Ivan Ivanitch Klopstock the civil counsellor--have you heard of him ?--has not to this day paid her for the half-dozen linen shirts she made him and drove her roughly away, stamping and reviling her, on the pretext that the shirt collars were not made like the pattern and were put in askew.

And there are the little ones hungry....