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Chapter 20

           PresentlyMrWitherden,smellingveryhardatthenosegay,cametothewindowandlookedathim,andafterthatMrAbelcameandlookedathim,andafterthattheoldgentlemanandladycameandlookedathimagain,andafterthattheyallcameandlookedathimtogether,whichKit,feelingverymuchembarrassedby,madeapretenceofnotobserving.Thereforehepattedtheponymoreandmore;andthislibertytheponymosthandsomelypermitted.

           Thefaceshadnotdisappearedfromthewindowmanymoments,whenMrChucksterinhisofficialcoat,andwithhishathangingonhisheadjustasithappenedtofallfromitspeg,appeareduponthepavement,andtellinghimhewaswantedinside,badehimgoinandhewouldmindthechaisethewhile.IngivinghimthisdirectionMrChucksterremarkedthathewishedthathemightbeblessedifhecouldmakeoutwhetherhe(Kit)was‘preciousraw’or‘preciousdeep,’butintimatedbyadistrustfulshakeofthehead,thatheinclinedtothelatteropinion.

           Kitenteredtheofficeinagreattremor,forhewasnotusedtogoingamongstrangeladiesandgentlemen,andthetinboxesandbundlesofdustypapershadinhiseyesanawfulandvenerableair.MrWitherdentoowasabustlinggentlemanwhotalkedloudandfast,andalleyeswereuponhim,andhewasveryshabby.

           ‘Well,boy,’saidMrWitherden,‘youcametoworkoutthatshilling;nottogetanother,hey?’

           ‘Noindeed,sir,’repliedKit,takingcouragetolookup.‘Ineverthoughtofsuchathing.’

           ‘Fatheralive?’saidtheNotary.

           ‘Dead,sir.’

           ‘Mother?’

           ‘Yes,sir.

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