Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-01-03
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BY CHARLES DICKENS.
PART TEN.
CHAPTER XXI.
NURSE AND PATIENT.
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lifted my VEIL and spoke 10 the woman. She
said to me in low voice. Don't mind him,
ma am. He'll soon come back TO his head:' and
| said to him, 'Jo 10, what's the maiter?'
! Il know wot she's come for, cried the boy.
.Who?'
'The lady there. She's come to get me to go
along with her to the berryng ground. won't
| 90 to the berrying ground | don't like the name
on it. She might 90 beryin' me- His shv-
ering came on again, and as he leaned against
4 The wall, he shook the howell.
lie has been talking off and on about such
like, lday, ma am said Jenny, softly. why,
how you stare This is ny lady, Jo.'
sIs Il - ratnrn~1- ~ s5dBtiuIy, and sur
veying me with his arm held ont above his burn
ng eyes she looks to the t'other one. 1t
amt the bonnet, nor yet it amt the gownd, bat
she looks to the tother one
My little Charley, with her premature expert
ence Of illness and trouble, had pulled Of her bon
net and shawl, and now went quietly up to him
| with chair, and sat him down in it, like an old
sick nurse Except that no such attendant could
have shown him Charley's youthful face, which
seemed to engage his confidence.
i sayr said the boy. You feline. Ain'tthe
lady the t'other lady''
Charley shook her head, as she mehodicalIy
1 drew his rag about him, and made him as warm
or the boy muuered. 'Then l spose she
amt.
Il came 10 see if could do you any good,'
said |. what is the matter with you =,
Pm being froze,' returned the boy hoarsey,
with his haggard gaze wandering about me- and
then burnt up, and then froze aud then burnt up,
ever so many times in an hour And my heads
all sleepy. and all a-going mad-like-and Pm 50
dry-and my bones isn't half SO much bones as
pain
.When did he come here? ? asked the wo-
man
.Ths morning, ma am, | found him at the cor
ner of the town. / mad known him up in London
wonder. HadntI, 10 =
s'Tonl. alI-Alone's,' the boy replied.
> Whenever he fixed his attention or his eyes, It
was only for very little while. lie soon began
to droop his head again, and roll it heavily, and
speak as if he were half awake.
sWhen did he come from London Z | asked
i come from Lopdon yes'day,' said the boy
himself, now flushed and hot I'm going some
where's
sWhere is he going?' I asked.
sSomewheres,' repeated the boy in louder
tone. i have been moved on, and moved on,
more nor ever | was afore, since the t'other one
CIV me the sov'rng. NrsSnagsby, she's always
a watching, and driving Of me-what have
done to her ?-and they're all a watching and q
driving of me. Every one OF 'enl's DONG OF It
from the time when | dent get up. TO the time
+, when don't 60 10 bed. And Pm going some
where's. That's where I'm going She told
tn me down in Tom s-all-Alone's as she come from
d Stolbuns, and so took the Stobuns Road Its
IN as good another
He always concluded by addressing Charley.
sWhat is TO be done with him 2 said |, taking
h the woman aside. sHe could not travel in this
y state, even if he had purpose, and knew where
n he was going
y 4 know no more, ma am than the Dead she
n replied, gancng compassonately at him. Per
haps the dead know better, if they could only tell
US. I've kept him here all day for PHYS sake
and I've given him broth and physc, and Liz has
gone to try if any one will take him in there IS my
pretty in the bed-her child, but cali il minel
but can't keep him long, for if my husband was
tc come home and find him here, I'D be rough
in putting him out, and might do him a hurt
Elark here comes Liz baekp
The other came hurriedIy in as she,
spoke, and the boy got up with half o5scurg
sense that he was expected to be going Wy
Y the little child awoke, and when and how Cbc
got at it, took it out of bed, and began yasis
), about bushng 1t, don't know. Ghereh , as II
doing all this in quiet motherly mpfn Ao"'
she were living In Mrs Binders atty
and Emma again. Ne. and had
e The FREUD had been here and hand, and hau
5, been played about from haRt ii was too cary
]. come back she went. Ao the proper reiuSe e.,
S for the boy to be received One official sen. -
and aa At lss, ! as too s. isg Asy dro 1 co.
h the first, and so backward and forward; until Il
appeared TO me as if both must bave been an
pointed for their skill in evading their duties u
stead Of performing them. And now, after AZ
: she said breathing quickly, for she had been run
!. ming, aid was frightened 100, Jenny, your mas
ters on the road home, and mines not far behind
and the Lord help the boy, for we can do no
r. L r
gether, and hurried them into his hand, and so. in
d an oblIvious, half thankful, half insensibe way,
he shuiiied out Of the house,
0 Give me the child, my dearn said its mother
to Charley, 'and thank you kindly too! Jenny.
woman dear good night Young lady, if nv
master don't fall out with me, iii look down by
J. the kiln by and by, where the boy will be most
like, and again in the morningp She hurried off
and presently we passed her hushing and singing
to her child at her own door. and looking ahxious-
ly along the road for her drunken husband
was afraid Of staying then, to speak to either
woman or child, lest should hiring her ioto
trouble. But said TO Charley that we must not
leave the boy TO die. Charley, who knew what
to dc mnch better than did, and whose quckness
equalled her presence of mind, gided on before
- me- and presently we came up with 10, just short
Of the btck-liln.
think he must have begun bis journey with
some small bundle under his arm, aud must have
d had il stolen or lost it. For he still carried his
4 wretched fragment of fur cap like bundle
= though he went bare headed through the rain,
WHICH now fell fast. He stopped when we called
to him, and again showed dread Of me when
came up; standing with his lusirous eyes hxed
;. upon me, and even arrested in his shivering it,
asked him to come with US, and we would
take care that he had some shelter for the night
!. Il don't want no SHELTER, he said; i can lay
y amongst the warm bricks.
Dat don't you know that people die there 4,
returned Charley. hA A
They dies eyerywheres, SAID The boy. They
a dies at their lodgings--she knows where; show
!, ed her--and they dies down 10 Tom all-Alone
in heaps. They dies more than they lives, sc-
cording to what see.' Then he hoarseIy whir-
: pered Charley, 'Ir she amt the t'oher one, she
amt the forenner. Is there three Of 'em, then y
D Charley looked Mt mo a little frightened. ins'
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