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Shall I tell you o to him, from here, to tell him of it!'

She seemed to entreat him for a little time He held her in his arm,

and, after a pause, bent down his ear to listen 'Did you ask o on?'

'Yes' 'He will be a richto be paid over to him as his inheritance; you are all

henceforth very wealthy Bravest and best of children, I thank Heaven

that you are rewarded!' As he kissed her, she turned her head towards his shoulder, and raised

her arm towards his neck; cried out 'Father! Father! Father!' and

swooned away

Upon which Flora returned to take care of her, and hovered about her on

a sofa, inter kind offices and incoherent scraps of conversation

in a , that whether she pressed the Marshalsea to

take a spoonful of unclairatulated Little Dorrit's father on co-bottles; or whether she

explained that she put seventy-five thousand drops of spirits of

lavender on fifty thousand pounds of luar, and that she entreated

Little Dorrit to take that gentle restorative; or whether she bathed the

foreheads of Doyce and Clennaave the late Mr F more

air; no one with any sense of responsibility could have undertaken to