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There , do you understand now ? '' `` Very well , I 'll do anything you like . '' Thus it befell that I undertook to look after the moral , material , and spiritual welfare of the family of an alcoholic tailor by the name of Judd who dwelt in a vile slum in South Lambeth . My head was full of the prospect when I awoke at noon , for I had gone exhausted to sleep as soon as I reached home . If goodwill , backed by the experience of Barbara 's Building , could do aught towards the alleviation of human misery , I determined that it should be done . And there was much misery to be alleviated in the Judd family . I had no clear notion of the means whereby I was to accomplish this ; but I knew that it would be a philanthropic pursuit far different from my previous eumoirous wanderings abut London when , with a mind conscious of well-doing , I distributed embarrassing five-pound notes to the poor and needy .