I was dragged in the mire by those who should have helped me to rise.

I have starved for days; I have wept for years; in all God's earth there is no more miserable a creature than I am." "Kindly talk without so much melodrama," said Random cruelly.
"Ah," Mrs.Jasher sat down and locked her hands together, "you don't believe me.

I daresay you don't understand, for life, real life, is a sealed book to you.

It is useless for me to appeal to your sympathy, for you are so very ignorant.

Let us stick to facts.