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Alone In London

CHAPTER XX
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Tony's heart was very full; and when he tried to whistle, he was obliged to give it up, lest he should break out into sobs and crying.

When he went back into the house Raleigh was talking again.
"So Susan and me are to have one of the lodges of the colonel's park," he said, "and I'm to be a sort of bailiff to look after the other outdoor servants about the garden and premises.

It's a house with three bedrooms, and a very pleasant sort of little parlour, as well as a kitchen and scullery place downstairs.

You can see the Wrekin from the parlour window, and the moon over it; and it's not so far away but what we could get a spring-cart sometimes, and drive over to your old home under the Wrekin.

As soon as ever the colonel's lady told Susan where it was, she cried out, 'That's the very place for father!' You'd like to come and live with your own Susan again, in your own country; wouldn't you now ?" "Yes, yes; for a little while," answered old Oliver, with a smile upon his face.
Tony felt a strange and very painful shrinking at his heart.


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