from this cause every evening, when my feet inflamed; and the torture with her, he would sanction
everything at oncehe answered.of thrusting the swelled, raw, and stiff toes into my shoes in the morning. Then the scanty
supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid.
From this deficiency of nourishment , which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would
coax or menace the little ones out of their portion. Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at teatime; and
after relinquishing to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the
exigency of hunger.
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