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Chapter I--Barbox Brothers | Charles Dickens | |
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At length, after a lapse of some days, there came another streak of fine bright hardy autumn weather. It was a Saturday. The window was open, and the children were gone. Not surprising, this, for he had patiently watched and waited at the corner until they WERE gone. "Good-day," he said to the face; absolutely getting his hat clear off his head this time. "Good-day to you, sir." "I am glad you have a fine sky again to look at." "Thank you, sir. It is kind if you." "You are an invalid, I fear?" "No, sir. I have very good health." "But are you not always lying down?" "Oh yes, I am always lying down, because I cannot sit up! But I am not an invalid." The laughing eyes seemed highly to enjoy his great mistake. "Would you mind taking the trouble to come in, sir? There is a beautiful view from this window. And you would see that I am not at all ill--being so good as to care." It was said to help him, as he stood irresolute, but evidently desiring to enter, with his diffident hand on the latch of the garden-gate. It did help him, and he went in. |
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