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Title: Master Humphrey's clock
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, ill Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
Subjects: Gordon Riots, 1780
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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hours had expired, Kitand his mother arrived at the Notarys door, where a postchaise was alreadywaiting. With four horses I declare ! said Kit, quite aghast at the preparations.* Well you are going to do it, mother ! Here she is, sir. Heres my mother.Shes quite ready sir. Thats well—returned the gentleman. Now, dont bo in a flutterMaam; youll be taken great care of. Wheres the box with the new clothingand necessaries for them ? Here it is, said the Notary. In with it, Christopher. All right sir, replied Kit. Quite ready now sir, Then come along, said the single gentleman. And thereupon he gave hisarm to Kits mother, handed her into the carriage as politely as you please,and took his seat beside her. 24 MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK. Up went the steps, bang went the dooi, round whirled the wheels, and offthey rattled, with Kits mother hanging out at one window waving a damppocket-handkerchief and screaming out a great many messages to little Jacoband the baby, of which nobody heard a word.
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Kit stood in the middle of the road, and looked after them with tears inhis eyes—not brought there by the depaiture he witnessed, but by the returnto which he looked forward. They went away he thought, on foot withnobody to speak to them or say a kind word at parting, and theyll come backdrawn by four horses, with this rich gentleman for their friend, and all theirtroubles over ! Shell forget that she taught me to write— Whatever Kit thought about after this, took some time to think of, forhe stood gazing up the lines of shining lamps, long after the chaise haddisappeared, and did not return into the house until the Notary and Mr.Abel, who had themselves lingered outside till the sound of the wheels was nolonger distinguishable, had several times wondered what could possibly detainhim. MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK. 25 ^)^c Olti Curiositp ^f)op. CHAPTER THE FORTY-SECOND. It behoves us to leave Kit for a while, thoughtful and expectant, and tofollow the fortunes of little Nell; resuming t

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