Pearl-Fishing: Choice Stories From Dickens' Household Words 1
Pearl-Fishing: Choice Stories From Dickens' Household Words 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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They entered the house ; Susan snatched up the light, and carried it upstairs. The other followed. She stood with wild glaring eyes by the bed- side, never looking at Susan, but hungrily gazing at the little white stiU child. She stooped down, and put her hand tight on her own heart, as if to still its beating, and bent her ear to the pale lips. Lizzis Leigh. 165 Wliatever the resxilt was, she did not speak ; but threw off the bed-clothes wherewith Susan had tenderly covered the little creature..., and felt its left side. Then she threw up her arms with a cry of wild despair. " She is dead I she is dead 1 " She looked so fierce, so mad, so haggard, that for an instant Susan was terrified — ^the next, the holy God had put courage into her heart, and her pure arms were round that guilty wretched crea- ture, and her tears were falling fast and warm upon her breast. But she was thrown off with violence. ** You killed her — ^you slighted her — you let her fall down those stairs I you killed her I " Susan cleared off the thick mist before her, and gazing at the mother with her clear, sweet, angel- eyes, said moumfiilly — " I would have laid down my own life for her." " Oh, the murder is on my soul I " exclaimed the wild bereaved mother, with the fierce impet- 15d Pearl-Fishing.
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