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Updated: June 26, 2025
I sank back into my chair. There was a greater disaster to be recorded next day. A workingman in the square, looking about him for a pipe-light, espied the paper frisking near the curb-stone. He picked it up with the obvious intention of lighting it at the stove of a wandering vender of hot chestnuts who had just crossed the square.
The month of August passed, and, after all these delays, they decided that it was to be irrevocably fixed for the 4th September a Monday. At length the Saturday before arrived. Rodolphe came in the evening earlier than usual. "Everything is ready?" she asked him. "Yes." Then they walked round a garden-bed, and went to sit down near the terrace on the curb-stone of the wall.
It was a beat, we'd got it by accident, and we had it all to ourselves, but Charlie came across a blind beggar on Broadway with a dead dog. The dog had been run over, and the blind beggar couldn't find his way home without him, and was sitting on the curb-stone, weeping over the mongrel.
But from my stand on the opposite curb-stone I saw him draw aside the girl, who from her garments might have been the daughter or wife of any one of the shiftless, drinking wretches lounging about on the four corners within my view, and after talking earnestly with her for a few moments, saunter at her side down Broome Street, still talking.
"Guh-uh-guh-GOODNESS!" she sobbed. Penrod immediately drooped to the curb-stone, which he reached, by pure fortune, in a sitting position. Mr. Blakely leaned against a fence, and said nothing, though his breathing was eloquent. "We we must go go home," Margaret gasped. "We must, if if we can drag ourselves!" Then Penrod showed them what mettle they he'd tried to crack.
"Blind, eh?" said the doctor, stooping and looking into the pale face of the unhappy singer; "born blind! I can do nothing for you. John! drive the horses away from that curb-stone." He stepped forward, as he spoke, as if about to leave the children, but he stood still again the next minute, arrested by the sound of Tiny's indignant voice.
To christen yourself while your eyes are shut and your head rests on a curb-stone is not easy, and later I was sorry I had not called myself Fairchild as being more aristocratic. But then it was too late. As Fitzgibbon I had come back to life, and as Fitzgibbon I must remain.
But pleased as I was, I had only discovered how one bundle had been disposed of. The dress and outside fixings still had to be accounted for, and I was the woman to do it. We had mechanically moved in the direction of the drug-store and were near the curb-stone when I reached this point in my meditations.
'What can be done for them? I said, and at the moment, my eye fell upon a row of little children, from two to five years of age, seated upon the curb-stone. They were chattering fast, and apparently carrying on some game, as happy as if they had been in the fields. 'Wouldn't you like to take all those little grubby things, and put them in a great tub and wash them clean? I said.
In Uncle Roger's barn the Toyman unhitched him, and gave him some hay and some oats too, for it was a grand holiday. Then hand-in-hand the Toyman and the three happy children hurried over to Main Street. So many people were crowded on the sidewalk that the children could hardly see. But Jehosophat ducked under the stomachs of two big fat men and sat on the curb-stone.
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