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Updated: May 11, 2025
With such talk, mostly in a cheerful tone on the part of the industrious little creature, the day-work and the night-work were beguiled until enough of smart dolls had gone forth to bring into the kitchen, where the working-bench now stood, the sombre stuff that the occasion required, and to bring into the house the other sombre preparations.
But the end nearest to the working-bench had been cleared, and here stood a mighty curious intricate mechanism of wheels and brass wire and little brass balls, with fine brass chains depending through holes in the board. My host flung a tender look at it across his shoulder as he stepped to the press to fetch basin and towel. 'The oaf has dislocated the pin of the fly-wheel, he grunted.
When Lizzie Hexam's brother and a friend, Bradley Headstone, paid their first visit to the house on Church Street, they knocked at the door, which promptly opened and disclosed a child a dwarf, a girl sitting on a little, low, old-fashioned arm-chair, which had a kind of little working-bench before it. "I can't get up," said the child, "because my back's bad and my legs are queer.
It was carried home, and, by reason that the staircase was very narrow, it was put down in the parlour the little working-bench being set aside to make room for it and there, in the midst of the dolls with no speculation in their eyes, lay Mr Dolls with no speculation in his.
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