‘Can is the only ought in practical life.’
‘I see; and that makes the poor people hungry and cold.’
‘I suppose so.’
‘And when they are very hungry, and very cold, the dealer, and his well-to-do friends give them a little soup and a blanket.’
‘That’s about it.’
‘Oh, how funny! how funny! how funny!’
‘What would you have him do?’
‘What would you?’
‘I don’t know.’
‘You do know. Is there anything but one thing—take less himself, and give them more?’