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Chapter 2 Fellow Travellers

           ThenameofBeadlebeingoutofthequestion,andtheoriginatoroftheInstitutionforthesepoorfoundlingshavingbeenablessedcreatureofthenameofCoram,wegavethatnametoPet’slittlemaid.AtonetimeshewasTatty,andatonetimeshewasCoram,untilwegotintoawayofmixingthetwonamestogether,andnowsheisalwaysTattycoram.’

           ‘Yourdaughter,’saidtheother,whentheyhadtakenanothersilentturntoandfro,and,afterstandingforamomentatthewallglancingdownatthesea,hadresumedtheirwalk,‘isyouronlychild,Iknow,MrMeagles.MayIaskyou—innoimpertinentcuriosity,butbecauseIhavehadsomuchpleasureinyoursociety,mayneverinthislabyrinthofaworldexchangeaquietwordwithyouagain,andwishtopreserveanaccurateremembranceofyouandyours—mayIaskyou,ifIhavenotgatheredfromyourgoodwifethatyouhavehadotherchildren?’

           ‘No.No,’saidMrMeagles.‘Notexactlyotherchildren.Oneotherchild.’

           ‘IamafraidIhaveinadvertentlytoucheduponatendertheme.’

           ‘Nevermind,’saidMrMeagles.‘IfIamgraveaboutit,Iamnotatallsorrowful.Itquietsmeforamoment,butdoesnotmakemeunhappy.Pethadatwinsisterwhodiedwhenwecouldjustseehereyes—exactlylikePet’s—abovethetable,asshestoodontiptoeholdingbyit.’

           ‘Ah!indeed,indeed!’

           ‘Yes,andbeingpracticalpeople,aresulthasgraduallysprungupinthemindsofMrsMeaglesandmyselfwhichperhapsyoumay—orperhapsyoumaynot—understand.

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