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“It must be very inconvenient to be poor;” said Mrs.
Partington, as she glanced with honest pride at her high-backed
chairs and old-fashioned chest of drawers, and
continued her eye on to the open cupboard in the corner.
“How people can contrive to get along with so
little I don't see. There is our poor neighbor down the
yard, now, is so pinched for room that she has to have a
bed in the very room where she sleeps!”

Kind old lady! her benevolence walked ahead of her
grammar; but a trifling error in speech is as pardonable
in Mrs. Partington as in Henry Clay.