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Title: Dicken's works
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: Boston : Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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if the inmates of any lone house beyondwould have more pity on their exhausted state. They were dragging themselves along through thelast street, and the child felt that the time was closeat hand when her enfeebled powers would bear nomore. There appeared before them at this juncture,going in the same direction as themselves, a travel-ler on foot, w^ho, with a portmanteau strapped to hisback, leaned upon a stout stick as he walked, andread from a book which he held in his other hand. It was not an easy matter to come up with him,and beseech his aid, for he walked fast, and was alittle distance in advance. At length he stopped tolook more attentively at some passage in his book.Animated with a ray of hope, the child shot on beforeher grandfather, and going close to the stranger with-out rousing him by the sound of her footsteps, began,in a few faint words, to implore his help. He turned his head. The child clapped her handstogether, uttered a wild shriek, and fell senseless athis feet.
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CHAPTEE X. It was the poor schoolmaster. ISTo other thanthe poor schoolmaster. Scarcely less moved andsurprised by the sight of the child than she hadbeen on recognizing him, he stood, for a moment,silent and confounded by this unexpected appari-tion, without even the presence of mind to raise herfrom the ground. But, quickly recovering his self-possession, hethrew down his stick and book, and dropping onone knee beside her, endeavored, by such simplemeans as occurred to him, to restore her to herself;while her grandfather, standing idly by, wrung hishands, and implored her with many endearingexpressions to speak to him, were it only a word. She is quite exhausted, said the schoolmaster,glancing upward into his face. You have taxedher powers too far, friend. She is perishing of want, rejoined the old man.I never thought how weak and ill she was tillnow. Casting a look upon him, half reproachful andhalf compassionate, the schoolmaster took the childin his arms, and, bidding the old man

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