The crowd rose to that, with the pinched proof before their eyes.
'Just enough alive to suffer through their children. And so the workin' women round about where I live—that's 'Ackney—they say if we ain't 'eathins in this country let's give up 'eathin ways. Let the mothers o' this country 'ave their 'ands untied. We're willin' to work for our children, but it breaks our 'earts to work without tools. The tool we're needin' is the tool that mends the laws. I 'ave pleasure in secondin' the resolution.'
With nervously twitching lips the woman sat down. They cheered her lustily—a little out of sympathy, a good deal from relief that she had finished, and a very different sort of person was being introduced by the chairman.
CHAPTER IX
'I will now call upon the last speaker. Yes, I will answer any general questions after Miss Ernestine Blunt has spoken.'
'Oh, I sy!'
'’Ere's Miss Blunt.'
'Not that little one?'