What part of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Our Old Home" does O'Connor recount in "Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann"?

O'Connor tells a Nathaniel Hawthorne story in which a man visits a poorhouse. The man picks up a particularly offensive child simply because the child positioned himself in front of the man expecting to be picked up. Hawthorne overcomes his repugnance at the sight of the child and holds him.