do you turn away your face could not help following at a little distance they went to the house of an old se where the elder sister had engaged a bed room for the child i shall come to you early every morning she said and we can be together au the day � why not at night time too dear sister would they be angry with you for that why were the eyes of little wet that night with tears like those of the two sisters why did she bear a grateful heart because they had met and feel it pain to think that they the old shop s would part let us not that any selfish reference � unconscious though it might have been � to her own trials awoke this sympathy but thank god that the innocent joys of others can strongly move us and that we even in our nature have one source of pure emotion which must be in heaven by morning s cheerful glow but oftener stiu by evening s light the child with a respect for the short and happy intercourse of these two sisters which forbade her to approach and say a thankful word although she to do so followed them at a distance in their walks and stopping when they stopped sitting on the grass when they sat down rising when they went on and feeling it a companionship and delight to be so near them their evening walk was by a river s side here every night the child was too unseen by them of but feeling as if they were her friends as if they had confidences and together as if her load were lightened and less hard to bear as if they mingled their sorrows and found mutual consolation it was a weak fancy perhaps the childish fancy of a young and lonely creature but night after night and still the sisters in the same place and the child followed with a mild and softened heart she was much startled on returning home one night to find that mrs had commanded an announcement to be prepared to the effect that the collection would only remain in its present quarters one day longer in fulfilment of which threat for all connected with public amusements are well known to be and most exact the collection shut up next day are we going from this place directly ma am said look here child returned mrs that ll inform you and so saying mrs produced another announcement wherein it was stated that in consequence of numerous inquiries at the wax work door and in consequence of crowds having been disappointed in obtaining admission the exhibition would be continued for one week longer and would re open next day for now that the schools are gone and the regular exhausted said mrs we come to the general public and they want thb old shop upon the following day at noon mrs herself behind the highly ornamented table attended by the distinguished before mentioned and ordered the to be thrown open for the of a and enlightened public but the first day s operations were by no means of a successful character inasmuch as the general public though they manifested a lively interest in mis personally and such of her were to be seen for nothing were not affected by any impulses moving them to the payment of sixpence a head thus notwithstanding that a great many people continued to stare at the entry and the figures therein displayed and remained there with great perseverance by the hour at a time to hear the barrel organ played and to read the bills and notwithstanding that they were kind enough to recommend their to the exhibition in the like manner until the door way was regularly by half the population of the town who when they went off duty were relieved by the other half it was not found that the treasury was any the richer or that the prospects of the establishment were at all encouraging in this depressed state of the classical market mrs made extraordinary efforts to the popular taste and the popular curiosity certain machinery in the body of the on the leads over the door was cleaned up and put in motion so that the figure shook its head all day long to the great admiration of a drunken but very over the way who looked upon the said motion as typical df the degrading effect wrought upon the human mind by the ceremonies of the church and upon that theme with great eloquence and morality the two constantly passed in and out of the exhibition room imder various protesting aloud that the sight was better worth the money than anything they had beheld in all their lives and urging the with tears in their eyes not to neglect such a brilliant gratification mrs sat in the pay place silver from noon till night and solemnly calling upon the crowd to take notice that the price of admission was only sixpence and that the departure of the whole collection on a short tour among the crowned heads of europe was positively fixed for that day week the old curiosity shop so be in time be in time be in time said mrs at the dose of eveiy such address remember that this is s collection of upwards of one hundred figures and that it is the only collection in the world all others being and be in time be in time be in time the old shop chapter as the course of this tale requires that we should become acquainted somewhere with a few particulars connected with the domestic economy of mr brass and as a more convenient than the present is not likely to occur for that purpose the historian takes the reader by the him into the air ai l the same at a greater rate than ever 