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Updated: May 3, 2025
Now, I am sorry to say that I am such a thorough gipsy in my tastes that any pursuit which serves as an excuse for spending hours in the open air, is full of attraction for me; consequently, I embraced the proposal with ardour, and set about gathering, under F 's directions, what seemed to bid fair to rival the collection of an old rag-and-bottle merchant.
So was it also with the grey-haired rascal, Joe, of the rag-and-bottle shop; with Topper, when he pronounced himself, as a bachelor, to be "a wretched outcast;" with the Schoolmaster, when he "glared on Master Scrooge with ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him," all of whom were indicated by the merest touch or two, and yet each of whom was a living and breathing and speaking verisimilitude.
But there came a time not long after this, when the stranger was found dead in his bed, in the house of Crook, the rag-and-bottle merchant, where he had lodgings; and nothing could be found out about his life or the reason for his sudden death.
'I desire to rest after all the happenings of this last moon I do desire really to rest, and I ask of you one last boon. 'Any little thing we can do, said Robert. Now that it had really come to parting with the Phoenix, whose favourite he had always been, Robert did feel almost as miserable as the Phoenix thought they all did. 'I ask but the relic designed for the rag-and-bottle man.
'It's the rag-and-bottle man's day to-morrow, said Anthea, in a low voice; 'he will take it away. The Phoenix fluttered up to its favourite perch on the chair-back.
That's the very girl we saw on the boat," went on Berenice, in the same low whisper. "Did you ever! Hasn't Mrs. Gray done her over nicely? I wonder where she got that hat?" "I wonder what she has done with the old one?" "Given it to the cook, or sold it to the rag-and-bottle man," retorted Berry.
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