[Bleak House by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBleak House CHAPTER XI 28/32
No doubt.
Gentlemen, you are discharged.
Good afternoon. While the coroner buttons his great-coat, Mr.Tulkinghorn and he give private audience to the rejected witness in a corner. That graceless creature only knows that the dead man (whom he recognized just now by his yellow face and black hair) was sometimes hooted and pursued about the streets.
That one cold winter night when he, the boy, was shivering in a doorway near his crossing, the man turned to look at him, and came back, and having questioned him and found that he had not a friend in the world, said, "Neither have I. Not one!" and gave him the price of a supper and a night's lodging. That the man had often spoken to him since and asked him whether he slept sound at night, and how he bore cold and hunger, and whether he ever wished to die, and similar strange questions.
That when the man had no money, he would say in passing, "I am as poor as you to-day, Jo," but that when he had any, he had always (as the boy most heartily believes) been glad to give him some. "He was wery good to me," says the boy, wiping his eyes with his wretched sleeve.
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