She Had A Spare Room And Used To Take In A Lodger
Occasionally, And A Good Handy Woman She Was Too; But Now - No,
Mrs. Flowerdew Could Not Take Us In.
We questioned him, and
he said that no one had died there and there had been no
illness.
They were all quite well at Mrs. Flowerdew's; the
trouble was of another kind. There was no more to be said
about it.
As nothing further could be got out of him we went in search
of Mrs. Flowerdew herself, and found her in a pretty
vine-clad cottage. She was a young woman, very poorly
dressed, with a pleasing but careworn face, and she had four
small, bright, healthy, happy-faced children. They were all
grouped round her as she stood in the doorway to speak to us,
and they too were poorly dressed and poorly shod. When we
told our tale she appeared ready to burst into tears. Oh, how
unfortunate it was that she could not take us in! It would
have made her so happy, and the few shillings would have been
such a blessing! But what could she do now - the landlord's
agent had put in a distress and carried off and sold all her
best things. Every stick out of her nice spare room had been
taken from them! Oh, it was cruel!
As we wished to hear more she told us the whole story. They
had got behindhand with the rent, but that had often been the
case, only this time it happened that the agent wanted a
cottage for a person he wished to befriend, and so gave them
notice to quit.
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