Chapter 14

Visit to the abode of Famine--Unexampled state of destitution--A spectacle that would have melted the heart of Shylock--Singular affection of a wife who loved her husband too well to keep him from starvation--Charitable character of New-Yorkers--Visit to the Lombards--Painful scenes--Frauds and oppression of those establishments--Avarice--How it chills the current of sympathy--Chapter breaks off unfinished 171