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You dare to move out of your corner for a single instant while I'm gone, and I'll know the reason why. With this admonition, she blew her work candles out, leaving him to the light of the fire, and, taking her big door-key in her pocket and her crutch-stick in her hand, marched off.
He had told her that she was like the sunshine to him better than sunshine and she had promised not to forsake him. She pictured him waiting, with his hand clasped upon his crutch-stick, his chin resting upon his hands, his eyes poring on the ground, as she had seen him for the first time.
'We had an idea among us, I think, said Alice, with a melancholy smile, 'we four, that Miss Grimmer would prove to be the wicked fairy, and would come in at the christening with her crutch-stick, and give the child a bad gift. Was there anything of that sort? Answer, William. She had called it shabby, electrotyped, second-hand, and below his income.
Sir Miles paused a moment, and struck his crutch-stick thrice firmly on the ground. "I see no great objection to that; but by the address of this letter, the poor girl is too far from Laughton to send Lucretia to her." "I can obviate that objection, Sir Miles. It is my wish to continue to Susan her present home amongst my own children.
Or I could turn you a rare handle for that crutch-stick, if it belongs to him you call your father." "It belongs to me," said the little creature, with a quick flush of her face and neck. "I am lame." Poor Sloppy flushed too, for there was an instinctive delicacy behind his buttons. He said perhaps, the best thing in the way of amends that could be said.
The crutch-stick seemed to entreat for its owner leave to come in and rest by the fire; so, Miss Abbey opened the half-door, and said, as though replying to the crutch-stick: 'Yes, come in and rest by the fire. 'My name is Riah, said the old man, with courteous action, 'and my avocation is in London city. This, my young companion 'Stop a bit, interposed Miss Wren.
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