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Still
,
she
did
nothing
—
grieving
.
It
was
a
long
way
to
this
better
thing
—
or
seemed
so
—
and
comfort
was
about
her
;
hence
the
inactivity
and
longing
.
In
the
city
,
at
that
time
,
there
were
a
number
of
charities
similar
in
nature
to
that
of
the
captain
’
s
,
which
Hurstwood
now
patronised
in
a
like
unfortunate
way
.
One
was
a
convent
mission
-
house
of
the
Sisters
of
Mercy
in
Fifteenth
Street
—
a
row
of
red
brick
family
dwellings
,
before
the
door
of
which
hung
a
plain
wooden
contribution
box
,
on
which
was
painted
the
statement
that
every
noon
a
meal
was
given
free
to
all
those
who
might
apply
and
ask
for
aid
.
This
simple
announcement
was
modest
in
the
extreme
,
covering
,
as
it
did
,
a
charity
so
broad
.
Institutions
and
charities
are
so
large
and
so
numerous
in
New
York
that
such
things
as
this
are
not
often
noticed
by
the
more
comfortably
situated
.
But
to
one
whose
mind
is
upon
the
matter
,
they
grow
exceedingly
under
inspection
.
Unless
one
were
looking
up
this
matter
in
particular
,
he
could
have
stood
at
Sixth
Avenue
and
Fifteenth
Street
for
days
around
the
noon
hour
and
never
have
noticed
that
out
of
the
vast
crowd
that
surged
along
that
busy
thoroughfare
there
turned
out
,
every
few
seconds
,
some
weather
-
beaten
,
heavy
-
footed
specimen
of
humanity
,
gaunt
in
countenance
and
dilapidated
in
the
matter
of
clothes
.
The
fact
is
none
the
less
true
,
however
,
and
the
colder
the
day
the
more
apparent
it
became
.
Space
and
a
lack
of
culinary
room
in
the
mission
-
house
,
compelled
an
arrangement
which
permitted
of
only
twenty
-
five
or
thirty
eating
at
one
time
,
so
that
a
line
had
to
be
formed
outside
and
an
orderly
entrance
effected
.
This
caused
a
daily
spectacle
which
,
however
,
had
become
so
common
by
repetition
during
a
number
of
years
that
now
nothing
was
thought
of
it
.
The
men
waited
patiently
,
like
cattle
,
in
the
coldest
weather
—
waited
for
several
hours
before
they
could
be
admitted
.
No
questions
were
asked
and
no
service
rendered
.
They
ate
and
went
away
again
,
some
of
them
returning
regularly
day
after
day
the
winter
through
.
A
big
,
motherly
looking
woman
invariably
stood
guard
at
the
door
during
the
entire
operation
and
counted
the
admissible
number
.
The
men
moved
up
in
solemn
order
.
There
was
no
haste
and
no
eagerness
displayed
.
It
was
almost
a
dumb
procession
.
In
the
bitterest
weather
this
line
was
to
be
found
here
.
Under
an
icy
wind
there
was
a
prodigious
slapping
of
hands
and
a
dancing
of
feet
.
Fingers
and
the
features
of
the
face
looked
as
if
severely
nipped
by
the
cold
.
A
study
of
these
men
in
broad
light
proved
them
to
be
nearly
all
of
a
type
.
They
belonged
to
the
class
that
sit
on
the
park
benches
during
the
endurable
days
and
sleep
upon
them
during
the
summer
nights
.
They
frequent
the
Bowery
and
those
down
-
at
-
the
-
heels
East
Side
streets
where
poor
clothes
and
shrunken
features
are
not
singled
out
as
curious
.
They
are
the
men
who
are
in
the
lodging
-
house
sitting
-
rooms
during
bleak
and
bitter
weather
and
who
swarm
about
the
cheaper
shelters
which
only
open
at
six
in
a
number
of
the
lower
East
Side
streets
.
Miserable
food
,
ill
-
timed
and
greedily
eaten
,
had
played
havoc
with
bone
and
muscle
.
They
were
all
pale
,
flabby
,
sunken
-
eyed
,
hollow
-
chested
,
with
eyes
that
glinted
and
shone
and
lips
that
were
a
sickly
red
by
contrast
.
Their
hair
was
but
half
attended
to
,
their
ears
anæmic
in
hue
,
and
their
shoes
broken
in
leather
and
run
down
at
heel
and
toe
.
They
were
of
the
class
which
simply
floats
and
drifts
,
every
wave
of
people
washing
up
one
,
as
breakers
do
driftwood
upon
a
stormy
shore
.
For
nearly
a
quarter
of
a
century
,
in
another
section
of
the
city
,
Fleischmann
,
the
baker
,
had
given
a
loaf
of
bread
to
any
one
who
would
come
for
it
to
the
side
door
of
his
restaurant
at
the
corner
of
Broadway
and
Tenth
Street
,
at
midnight
.
Every
night
during
twenty
years
about
three
hundred
men
had
formed
in
line
and
at
the
appointed
time
marched
past
the
doorway
,
picked
their
loaf
from
a
great
box
placed
just
outside
,
and
vanished
again
into
the
night
.
From
the
beginning
to
the
present
time
there
had
been
little
change
in
the
character
or
number
of
these
men
.
There
were
two
or
three
figures
that
had
grown
familiar
to
those
who
had
seen
this
little
procession
pass
year
after
year
.
Two
of
them
had
missed
scarcely
a
night
in
fifteen
years
.
There
were
about
forty
,
more
or
less
,
regular
callers
.
The
remainder
of
the
line
was
formed
of
strangers
.
In
times
of
panic
and
unusual
hardships
there
were
seldom
more
than
three
hundred
.
In
times
of
prosperity
,
when
little
is
heard
of
the
unemployed
,
there
were
seldom
less
.
The
same
number
,
winter
and
summer
,
in
storm
or
calm
,
in
good
times
and
bad
,
held
this
melancholy
midnight
rendezvous
at
Fleischmann
’
s
bread
box
.
At
both
of
these
two
charities
,
during
the
severe
winter
which
was
now
on
,
Hurstwood
was
a
frequent
visitor
.
On
one
occasion
it
was
peculiarly
cold
,
and
finding
no
comfort
in
begging
about
the
streets
,
he
waited
until
noon
before
seeking
this
free
offering
to
the
poor
.
Already
,
at
eleven
o
’
clock
of
this
morning
,
several
such
as
he
had
shambled
forward
out
of
Sixth
Avenue
,
their
thin
clothes
flapping
and
fluttering
in
the
wind
.
They
leaned
against
the
iron
railing
which
protects
the
walls
of
the
Ninth
Regiment
Armory
,
which
fronts
upon
that
section
of
Fifteenth
Street
,
having
come
early
in
order
to
be
first
in
.
Having
an
hour
to
wait
,
they
at
first
lingered
at
a
respectful
distance
;
but
others
coming
up
,
they
moved
closer
in
order
to
protect
their
right
of
precedence
.
To
this
collection
Hurstwood
came
up
from
the
west
out
of
Seventh
Avenue
and
stopped
close
to
the
door
,
nearer
than
all
the
others
.
Those
who
had
been
waiting
before
him
,
but
farther
away
,
now
drew
near
,
and
by
a
certain
stolidity
of
demeanour
,
no
words
being
spoken
,
indicated
that
they
were
first
.
Seeing
the
opposition
to
his
action
,
he
looked
sullenly
along
the
line
,
then
moved
out
,
taking
his
place
at
the
foot
.
When
order
had
been
restored
,
the
animal
feeling
of
opposition
relaxed
.
“
Must
be
pretty
near
noon
,
”
ventured
one
.
