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The gate was so familiar, and so like a companion, that they put down Maggy's basket in a corner to serve for a seat, and keeping close together, rested there for some time. While the street was empty and silent, Little Dorrit was not afraid; but when she heard a footstep at a distance, or saw a moving shadow among the street lamps, she was startled, and whispered, 'Maggy, I see some one.
"'Well, git your plug, and we'll amble along together. "So we rode in, right cheerful, instead of quar'lin'. I made him come along to Maggy's cabin, to show it weren't a bluff about the money. "Poor Maggy, she wipes her eye on her apron, and says she'll start for our camp at oncet. "I called the Chinaman aside, confidential. "'You take care of lady! I shrieks at him.
She would think of that old gate, and of herself sitting at it in the dead of the night, pillowing Maggy's head; and of other places and of other scenes associated with those different times. And then she would lean upon her balcony, and look over at the water, as though they all lay underneath it.
"I hopped up from the table and shook his hand, I shook Maggy's hand, where she stood, smilin' bashful, and then I shook the hand of a strange gent in black clothes, whose name was Mr. Somethin'-or-other. "Pete explained to me that the gent was a minister travelin' through the country, who'd offered him and Maggy a ride to town.
Maggy's pleasure in doing this and her little mother's pleasure in seeing Maggy pleased, was as good a turn as circumstances could have given to the late conversation. 'But the gates will have been locked long ago, said Clennam, suddenly remembering it. 'Where are you going? 'I am going to Maggy's lodging, answered Little Dorrit. 'I shall be quite safe, quite well taken care of.
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