Bolesław Prus

“ A couple of days later, on a Sunday, before the closed door to the editorial offices I encountered a poorly clad man with hands as black as a chimney sweep's, and with him a slip of a girl carrying a box of old books. ”

“ Z.'s, whose entire life was passed in rendering small services to the humanity contained between the seventh and third classes of the hierarchy of officialdom. Desiring to gratify him, the Counsilor told Mr. Z. what the Countess had seen at the orphanage and had heard from the nun, adding for his own part that books ought to be procured for the orphans. ”