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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Consequences. THE CAUSE. Ir you please, I want to go to Charing Cross. It was such a pretty voice, and such a young, timid, childish voice, that I looked down involuntarily from my seat on the top of the omnibus, and saw a little figure, with upraised face, and pale, floating hair, and two small hands holding tight to the leading-string of a small white dog. All right; this is your 'bus; but we can't take no dogs, miss, you know. Thus the conductor, rough and to the point, as is the manner of conductors, and, indeed, of most public officials. Oh, I can't go without him ! cried the pretty, plaintive voice. Please, might he go on the top ? I will take him, I said, leaning down and addressing the conductor. Let the child get in. She looked up gratefully at me. The gas-lamps flashed full and bright on her face. Something in the eyes, as I looked at them, struck me strangely, pitifully. They had a blank, unseeing look, giving back no response to the glance of my own. Good gracious ! I exclaimed. the child is blind! Yes, sir, she answered meekly; that is why I must take Tip with me. He leads me along, you know. I thought I had never seen anything so touching as the meek, upraised face, with its halo of pale-gold hair, and its solemnity of helpless appeal. Lift her up, I said to the man; and in another instant the child and the dog were by my side. It was about nine o'clock, and a dull December night. She was thinly, but neatly clad; the shabby, patched garments and dark felt hat were deftly and daintily arranged. I looked at her with a certain curiosity that soon found vent in speech. How comes it, I asked, that you are going to the Strand at this time of night, alone ? Are you not afraid ? Oh, no, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217903431
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217903436
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 204 gr


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