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"Have you any idea of any such person to whom you could recommend me? Or of any such agent here? I only want to see my way distinctly, and to have it prepared before me, out in the States. Now, I will make no apology for troubling you, because I thoroughly rely on your interest and kindness. "I am at Gad's Hill, except on Tuesdays and the greater part of Wednesdays.
A few months later he died suddenly one evening in June 1870 in his house at Gad's Hill. He was buried in Westminster, and although the funeral was very quiet and simple as he himself had wished, for two days after a constant stream of mourners came to place flowers upon his grave. I have not given you a list of Dicken's books because they are to be found in nearly every household.
The last of these spies, Gad's representative, bore the name Geuel, the son of Machi, for he was humbled because he urged untruths against God. As the ten sinners were name in accordance with their actions, so too did the names of the two pious spies among them correspond to their pious actions.
It was by this time one of those dark nights, the most propitious that can be imagined for such little adventures as rendered at one time the place called Gad's Hill famous alike in story and in song.
Moses indeed died on mount Nebo, which is Reuben's possession, but his body was taken from Nebo by the pinions of the Shekinah, and brought to Gad's territory, a distance of four miles, amid the lamentations of the angels, who said, "He shall enter into peace and rest in his bed."
My dear love to Fields once again. Same to you and him from M and G . I cannot tell you both how I miss you, or how overjoyed I should be to see you here. Ever, my dear , your most affectionate friend, Excellent accounts of his health and spirits continued to come from Gad's Hill, and his letters were full of plans for the future. On the 7th of July he writes from Gad's Hill as usual:
He thrust his hands deep in his pockets and sank into that attitude of dejection common to drunkards. Suddenly he pulled himself up. "'Shblood! Here's Richard t' draw from. Lemme have fifty pounds, Richard." "Not a farthing," I said, unmoved. "You say wha' shall be done with my father's money!" he cried. "I call tha' damned cool Gad's life! I do. Eh, Courtenay?"
But death was a long way forward in those old Chatham days; nor, as the time slipped by, and his father's pecuniary embarrassments began to thicken, and make the forward ways of life more dark and difficult, could the purchase of Gad's Hill Place have seemed much less remote.
On the 25th of May he sent off the following from Gad's Hill: My Dear : As you ask me about the dogs, I begin with them. When I came down first, I came to Gravesend, five miles off.
In the present case we were fortunate, for the gentleman who owned Gad's Hill was away and the neat maid who responded to the bell at the gateway seemed glad to show us the place, regardless of rules. It is a comfortable, old-fashioned house, built about 1775, and was much admired by Dickens as a boy when he lived with his parents in Rochester.
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