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His train left at eight; it was already nearly half past seven, and he said he had a letter to write. Nora brought the baby in to show him before he went, and then she helped Frankie to put on his overcoat, for Barrington had requested that the boy might be permitted to go a little way with him. There was a stationer's shop at the end of the street.
But although he was slightly older and taller than Frankie he could not lift the iron so often or hold it out so long as the other, a failure that Frankie attributed to the fact that Charley had too much tea and bread and butter instead of porridge and milk and Parrish's Food.
Frequently in that street was to be seen the appalling spectacle of the ten-year-old son of the refined and fashionable Trafaim dragging along a cart constructed of a sugar box and an old pair of perambulator wheels with no tyres, in which reposed the plebeian Frankie Owen, armed with a whip, and the dowdy daughter of a barber's clerk: while the nine-year-old heir of the coal merchant rushed up behind...
He had a severe cough: his eyes became deeply sunken and of remarkable brilliancy, and his thin face was always either deathly pale or dyed with a crimson flush. Frankie also began to show the effects of being obliged to go so often without his porridge and milk; he became very pale and thin and his long hair came out in handfuls when his mother combed or brushed it.
Frankie, finding he could gain neither sight nor sound of notice, began to howl. But as neither of the hard-hearted creatures seemed to care for the poor little chap's howling, he fell upon the coat-tails of the big blue obstruction, and pulled at them lustily, not to say viciously, till their owner turned, and beheld him panting and fiery. "Helloa, youngster! what's to pay now?"
You're not worthy to varnish those pretty patent leathers of hers. You know you're not. And by Jove, Frankie, if you had stayed with me yesterday I should never have forgiven you no, never! I'll resign in her favour. I will.
Most likely Esther and I will have to work hard enough all our lives we shall work, and you may have to suffer; but we cannot do without you any more than you can do without us. There, Frankie!" The day after the funeral Uncle Geoffrey held a family council, at which we were all present, except mother and Dot; he preferred talking to her alone afterward. Oh, what changes! what incredible changes!
'All right, we'll have it open now, so as to be on the safe side, said Owen as he stood up and raised the sash, and Nora, having wrapped the child up in a shawl, joined them at the window. 'It can't be much longer now, you know, said Frankie. 'The line's clear. They turned the red light off the signal just before you opened the window.
"By the way, Frankie," put in the hateful voice at his side, "I'll take charge of that parcel, if you don't want it." "Catch hold, then," said Frank. "You're welcome to it, if you'll carry it. You all right, Gertie?" The girl murmured something inaudible. As at their first meeting, she had said nothing at all.
Yesterday morning our poor little dog, Daisy, who had been ailing the day before, was suddenly seized with frightful spasms and died in half an hour. Poor little affectionate thing! If I were half as good for my nature as she for hers I should be much better than I am. While we were all mourning over her the news came that Aunt Frankie was breathing her last.
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