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they can help it; and it was cruel to shut me up alone without a candle;—so cruel that I think I shall never forget it。”
“Nonsense! And is it that makes you so miserable? Are you afraid now in daylight?”
“No: but night will e again before long: and besides;—I am unhappy;—very unhappy; for other things。”
“What other things? Can you tell me some of them?”
How much I wished to reply fully to this question! How difficult it was to frame any answer! Children can feel; but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought; they know not how to express the result of the process in words。 Fearful; however; of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it; I; after a disturbed pause; contrived to frame a meagre; though; as far as it went; true response。
“For one thing; I have no father or mother; brothers or sisters。”
“You have a kind aunt and cousins。”
Again I paused; then bunglingly enounced—
“But John Reed knocked me down; and my aunt shut me up in the red… room。”
Mr。 Lloyd a second time produced his snuff…box。
“Don’t you think Gateshead Hall a very beautiful house?” asked he。 “Are you not very thankful to have such a fine place to live at?”
“It is not my house; sir; and Abbot says I have less right to be here than a servant。”
“Pooh! you can’t be silly enough to wish to leave such a splendid place?”
“If I had anywhere else to go; I should be glad to leave it; but I can never get away from Gateshead till I am a woman。”
“Perhaps you may—who knows? Have you any relations besides Mrs。 Reed?”
“I think not; sir。”
“None belonging to your father?”
“I don’t know。 I asked Aunt Reed once; and she
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