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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV "AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM" "But you are not to talk! Now don't talk; just let me sit here, and--and keep you company." "All right, Tom. You've seen the last of Mr. Bland?" ".Yes; I went to the station with him." Tom spoke in a most funereal kind of whisper by way of example, and pulled his chair yet a little nearer to his father's bed. "He was very respectful to me, and I asked his pardon." "Just like you. Well, he's been making it up to you. He's been doing another little job for me--more in his own line--managed it better this time." "What? But never mind; you--you just listen to me, only listen." "Why--any thing fresh, exciting?" "Well, Madame Bayer has removed from there"--Tom turned his thumb toward the adjacent wall--" to No. 17, because her nerves, they make her cry for you in the night, and it--it spoils her breakfast. And Mr. Fairfax has got back from Lausanne. He has brought a whole lot of grapes and oranges, and a lump of ice as big as that." Tom spread his hands out pretty wide. "That '11 be enough. He's a good fellow. Did he see the last of Mr. Bland?" aw "Yes." "What did he say--Bland, I mean?" "Oh, he was very respectful to him, more respectful even than yesterday, and quite different from before." "Oh, he seems to have reformed altogether. You gave him a lesson, Tom. But what did he say?" "Oh, he was in a hurry, you know--it was on the platform; but he shook his head and touched his little black bag, and said he was glad he was just in time" "Umph!" "I suppose," said Tom, " he meant he was just in time to see Mr. Fairfax before lie went." "Yes, of course--that's what he'd mean. And did Mr. Fairfax seem pleased to see him--eh, Tom?" "No; he doesn't care any thing about him--at least he doesn't like Mr. Bland. You know,...
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