Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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and put it on again.
'Joe it is!' said Joe. 'Where's that young spark of Dombey's who's been watching the shipment of them goods?' 'Just gone, by t'other gate,' said Joe. 'Call him back a minute.' Joe ran up an archway, bawling as he went, and very soon returned with a blithe-looking boy. 'You're Dombey's jockey, ain't you?' said the first man. 'I'm in Dombey's House, Mr Clark,' returned the boy. 'Look'ye here, then,' said Mr Clark. Obedient to the indication of Mr Clark's hand, the boy approached towards Florence, wondering, as well he might, what he had to do with her. But she, who had heard what passed, and who, besides the relief of so suddenly considering herself safe at her journey's end, felt reassured beyond all measure by his lively youthful face and manner, ran eagerly up to him, leaving one of the slipshod shoes upon the ground and caught his hand in both of hers. 'I am lost, if you please!' said Florence. |
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