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Title: Dicken's works
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: Boston : Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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id the single gentleman.And thereupon he gave his arm to Kits mother,handed her into the carriage as politely as youplease, and took his seat beside her. Up went the steps, bang went the door, roundwhirled the wheels, and off they rattled, with Kitsmother hanging out at one window waving a damppocket-handkerchief, and screaming out a greatmany messages to little Jacob and the baby, ofwhich nobody heard a word. Kit stood in the middle of the road, and lookedafter them with tears in his eyes — not broughtthere by the departure he witnessed, but by thereturn to which he looked forward. They wentaway, he thought, on foot with nobody to speakto them or say a kind word at parting, and theyllcome back, drawn by four horses, with this richgentleman for their friend, and all their trou-bles over! Shell forget that she taught me towrite — Whatever Kit thought about after this, took sometime to think of, for he stood gazing up the lines ofshining lamps, long after the chaise had disappeared,
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THE OLD CUKIOSITY SHOP. 55 and did not return into the house until the notaryand Mr. Abel, who had themselves lingered outsidetill the sound of the wheels was no longer distin-guishable, had several times wondered what couldpossibly detain him. CHAPTEK VI. It behooves us to leave Kit for a while, thoughtfuland expectant, and to follow the fortunes of littleNell; resuming the thread of the narrative at thepoint where it was left, some chapters back. In one of those wanderings in the evening-time,when, following the two sisters at a humble distance,she felt, in her sympathy with them and her recog-nition in their trials of something akin to her ownloneliness of spirit, a comfort and consolation whichmade such moments a time of deep delight, thoughthe softened pleasure they yielded was of thatkind which lives and dies in tears — in one of thosewanderings at the quiet hour of twilight, when sky,and earth, and air, and rippling water, and sound ofdistant bells, claimed kindred with the e

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