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The Old Curiosity Shop

CHAPTER 30
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Then she asked her grandfather in a whisper whether anybody had left the room while she was absent.

'No,' he said, 'nobody.' It must have been her fancy then; and yet it was strange, that, without anything in her previous thoughts to lead to it, she should have imagined this figure so very distinctly.

She was still wondering and thinking of it, when a girl came to light her to bed.
The old man took leave of the company at the same time, and they went up stairs together.

It was a great, rambling house, with dull corridors and wide staircases which the flaring candles seemed to make more gloomy.


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