? ? ? ? "I suppose she won't leave anything," said Mrs. Pinkerton.
? ? ? ? "No. I hold a mortgage on her furniture, and that is all she has."
? ? ? ? "What will become of the children?"
? ? ? ? "As I observed, day before yesterday, they will be constrained to find a refuge in the poorhouse."
? ? ? ? "What do you think Sam Pomeroy told me, father?"
? ? ? ? "I am not able to conjecture what Samuel would be likely to observe, my son."
? ? ? ? "He observed that Frank Fowler said he wouldn't go to the poorhouse."
? ? ? ? "Ahem!" coughed the deacon. "The boy will not be consulted."
? ? ? ? "That's what I say, father," said Tom, who desired to obtain his father's co-operation. "You'll make him go to the poorhouse, won't you?"
? ? ? ? "I shall undoubtedly exercise my authority, if it should be necessary, my son."
? ? ? ? "He told Sam Pomeroy that all the Deacon Pinkertons in the world couldn't make him go to the poorhouse.
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