In a third class, best of all, it is served in simple shapes, but with a great variety of Unfortunate Persons,such as lonely people from lodging-houses, poor people of all grades, widows and childless in their affliction.

"Thy sword hath made many women childless, so shall thy mother be childless amongst other women."

So here was Eugénie, husbandless and childless at eight-and-twentyfor the only child of the marriage had died within a year of its birth; the heroine of an odious story which, if it had never reached the law courts, was none the less perfectly well known in society; and, in the eyes of those who loved her, one of the bravest, saddest, noblest of women.

He preached a moving sermon that day from a text of Samuel: "As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women."

The daughter of a felon to be the mother of his childrenah, no, not if he went childless to the grave!

Atossa, cursed with every granted prayer, Childless with all her children, wants an heir.

And given such a basis to go upon, then I see no reason why, in the case of couples who remain childless for five or six years, let us say, and seem likely to remain childless, the Shaw-esque divorce at the instance of either party, without reason assigned, should not be a very excellent thing indeed.