Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 34
ntly. I am very sorry, began I; but I reallycant help it. What am I to do? I must existsomewhere, you know; and if I cant do itwithout causing so much havoc— Havoc, indeed/ cried all the injured voicesagain. Burglary, murder, and destructiondog your footsteps wherever you go, and yourbreath poisons… … •^> such fellows as I, crawling between heavenand earth? It really did seem, now that thematter was fairly set before me, so terribly dis-proportioned an amount of waste that went tothe support of my life. Yet Iplucked up my spirit, and said,rather falteringly, it must beconfessed: Well, I cant…
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