# Household Words, No. 10, June 1, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78175

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+Words%2C+No.+10%2C+June+1%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There were some people in Bleaburn to whom the sign in heaven looked very differently. On the night when the people assembled in the street to question each other about it, Mary was at the Billiters’ house, where, but for her, all would have been blank despair. Mrs. Billiter lay muttering all night in the low delirium of the fever; and Mary could not do more for her than go to the side of her mattress now and then, to speak to her, and smooth her pillow, or put a cool hand on her forehead, while one of the dying children hung on the other shoulder. At last, the little fellow was evidently so near death that the slightest movement on her part might put out the little life. As he lay with h...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-10-june-1-1850-78175/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-10-june-1-1850-78175/chapters/1/index.md)