The Essential Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens & Maplewood Books

Author:Charles Dickens & Maplewood Books
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Maplewood Books
Published: 2014-08-05T07:00:00+00:00

'No blood-relation,' I replied; 'but we were brought up together, like brother and sister.'

'I wonder why you ever fell in love with me?' said Dora, beginning on another button of my coat.

'Perhaps because I couldn't see you, and not love you, Dora!'

'Suppose you had never seen me at all,' said Dora, going to another button.

'Suppose we had never been born!' said I, gaily.

I wondered what she was thinking about, as I glanced in admiring silence at the little soft hand travelling up the row of buttons on my coat, and at the clustering hair that lay against my breast, and at the lashes of her downcast eyes, slightly rising as they followed her idle fingers. At length her eyes were lifted up to mine, and she stood on tiptoe to give me, more thoughtfully than usual, that precious little kiss—once, twice, three times—and went out of the room.

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