[Bleak House by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBleak House CHAPTER XV 25/42
"It is enough that the time will come when this good woman will find that it WAS much, and that forasmuch as she did it unto the least of these--This child," he added after a few moments, "could she possibly continue this ?" "Really, sir, I think she might," said Mrs.Blinder, getting her heavy breath by painful degrees.
"She's as handy as it's possible to be.
Bless you, sir, the way she tended them two children after the mother died was the talk of the yard! And it was a wonder to see her with him after he was took ill, it really was! 'Mrs.Blinder,' he said to me the very last he spoke--he was lying there--'Mrs. Blinder, whatever my calling may have been, I see a angel sitting in this room last night along with my child, and I trust her to Our Father!'" "He had no other calling ?" said my guardian. "No, sir," returned Mrs.Blinder, "he was nothing but a follerers. When he first came to lodge here, I didn't know what he was, and I confess that when I found out I gave him notice.
It wasn't liked in the yard.
It wasn't approved by the other lodgers.
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