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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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CHAPTER THE FORTY-SIXTH. T was the poor schoolmaster. No other than the poorschoohnaster. Scarcely less moved and surprised by thesight of the child than she had been on recognising him, hestood for a moment silent and confounded by this unex-pected apparition, without even the presence of mind toraise her from the ground.But quickly recovering his self-possession, he threw downhis stick and book, and dropping on one knee beside her, endeavoured by suchsimple means as occurred to him, to restore her to herself; while her grand-father, standing idly by, wrung his hands, and implored her with many endear-ing expressions to speak to him, were it only a word. She is quite exhausted, said the schoolmaster, glancing upward into hisface. You have taxed her powers too far, friend. She is perishing of want, rejoined the old man. I never thought howweak and ill she was, till now. Casting a look upon him, half-reproachful and half-compassionate, theschoolmaster took the child in his arms, and bi

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