[The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookThe Old Curiosity Shop CHAPTER 31 8/15
It has always a sweet sound to me.
It always had when it was her mother's, poor child.' 'Let me persuade you, then--oh, do let me persuade you,' said the child, 'to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together.' 'We pursue this aim together,' retorted her grandfather, still looking away and seeming to confer with himself.
'Whose image sanctifies the game ?' 'Have we been worse off,' resumed the child, 'since you forgot these cares, and we have been travelling on together? Have we not been much better and happier without a home to shelter us, than ever we were in that unhappy house, when they were on your mind ?' 'She speaks the truth,' murmured the old man in the same tone as before.
'It must not turn me, but it is the truth; no doubt it is.' 'Only remember what we have been since that bright morning when we turned our backs upon it for the last time,' said Nell, 'only remember what we have been since we have been free of all those miseries--what peaceful days and quiet nights we have had--what pleasant times we have known--what happiness we have enjoyed.
If we have been tired or hungry, we have been soon refreshed, and slept the sounder for it. Think what beautiful things we have seen, and how contented we have felt.
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