Part 11 (2/2)
”Whom do you stay with?”
”nobody, only Jo”
”Is Jo your brother?”
”No, sir Jo is a girl I haven't got only Jo”
”What does Jo do for a living?”
”She--gets it, sir”
”And what do you do?”
”I beg It's better than to--get it, sir, I think”
”Where's your mother?”
”Dead”
”What did she die of?”
”Drink, sir,” said Mary Elizabeth, in her distinct and gentle tone
”Ah--well And your father?”
”He is dead He died in prison”
”What sent him to prison?”
”Drink, sir”
”Oh!”
”I had a brother once,” continued Mary Elizabeth, who grew quite eloquent with so large an audience, ”but he died, too”
”I do wantin a whisper, as if to Jo or to herself, ”and Jo'll be wondering foret you your supper”
”I thought thereso ht, she should get back her five cents
And, truly, the young in with Then he took out his purse, and put in so thatreat rooave the five cents and all the gentle man's hat
So, when he came back to the table, he emptied the hat and counted the money, and, truly, it was forty dollars
”Forty dollars!”