One woman, living in the middle of the row, evidently possessed somewhat different views, for she had planted vines on each of her division fences, rented her parlour to a lodger who only slept there, kept all her front curtains drawn, and stayed in the hack of her house. Such retribution as could legally be wreaked upon this offensive and exclusive person was daily administered by her two neighbours, who stood in their doors on either side and conversed across her house and garden with much freedom and exuberance. They had begged the landlord to induce her to take up her abode elsewhere; but as she was the only tenant who paid her rent regularly, he refused to part with her. Any one passing the ‘No Smoking’ sign and entering the front door of Mrs. Grubb’s house, on the corner, would have turned off the narrow uncarpeted hall into the principal room, and, if he were an observing person, would have been somewhat puzzled by its appearance. There were seven or eight long benches on one side, yet it had not the slightest resemblance to a schoolroom. The walls were adorned with a variety of interesting objects. There was a chart showing a mammoth human hand, the palm marked with myriads of purple lines. There were two others displaying respectively the interior of the human being in the pink-and-white purity of total abstinence, and the same interior after years of intemperance had done their fatal work; a most valuable chart this last, and one that had quenched the thirst of many a man. The words ‘_Poverty Must Go_’ were wrought in evergreen letters over the bay window, and various texts were printed in red and black and tacked to the wall in prominent places. These were such as— ‘_To be a Flesh-Eater is to be a Shedder of Blood and a Destroyer of God’s Innocent Creatures_.’ ‘_Now that Man has Begun to Ascend in the Scale of Being_, _let Woman Reach Down a Strong_, _Tender Hand and Aid him in his Struggle for Moral and Spiritual Elevation_.’ ‘_Let the Pleasure Field be as Large as Possible_. _Pains and Fears Lessen Growth_.’ ‘_I Believe that to Burden_, _to Bond_, _to Tax_, _to Tribute_, _to Impoverish_, _to Grind_, _to Pillage_, _to Oppress_, _to Afflict_, _to Plunder_, _to Vampire the Life Labouring to Create Wealth is the Unpardonable Sin_.’