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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XLVII
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He did not talk so early as Alley, but, nevertheless, he is more forward than the other children I see here.

The little monkeys! they are neither of them the least like me.

But one can always see oneself, and it don't matter if one does not.' 'If ever there was a brick, Gertrude is one,' said Norman.
'A brick!' said Charley--'why you might cut her to pieces, and build another Kensington palace out of the slices.

I believe she is a brick.' 'I wonder whether I shall ever see her again ?' said Mrs.
Woodward, not with dry eyes.
'Oh yes, mamma,' said Katie.

'She shall come home to us some day, and we will endeavour to reward her for it all.' Dear Katie, who will not love you for such endeavour?
But, indeed, the reward for heroism cometh not here.
There was much more in the letter, but enough has been given for our purpose.


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