coffee-house not far from Jubilee Street on the
Mile End Road.

"Cawn yer let me ave somethin for this, daugh
ter? Anythin', Hi don t mind. Hi aven t ad a
bite the blessed dy, an Hi m that fynt..."

[{COFFEE-HOUSE NEAR JUBILEE STREET.}]

She was an old woman, clad in decent black
rags, and in her hand she held a-penny. The one
she had addressed as dauQ-hter was a care-worn
woman of forty, proprietress and waitress of the house.

I waited, possibly as anxiously as the old woman,
to see how the appeal would be received. It was

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