Alone In London

Alone In London

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Alone In London by Hesba Stretton

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1919

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Alone In London

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ep anywhere, in Covent Garden sometimes, and the parks--anywhere as the p'lice 'ill let me alone. You won't go to give her up to them p'lice, will you now, and she so pretty?"

He spoke in a beseeching tone, and old Oliver looked down upon him through his spectacles, with a closer survey than he had given to him before. The boy's face was pale and meagre, with an unboyish sharpness about it, though he did not seem more than nine or ten years old. His glittering eyes were filled with tears, and his colourless lips quivered. He wiped away the tears roughly upon the ragged sleeve of his jacket.

"I never were such a baby before," said Tony, "only she is such a nice little thing, and such a tiny little 'un. You'll keep her, master, won't you? or give her up to me?"

"Ay, ay! I'll take care of her," answered Oliver, "till her mother comes back for her. She'll come pretty soon, I know. But she wants her supper now, doesn't she?"

He stooped down to bring his face nearer to the child's, and s

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Sentimental novel written by a frequent contributer to Charles Dickens' magazines. The story centers on the poor, the elderly, and the abandoned children of Victorian London. If you like Dickens' writings about this topic, you'll like this novel. Just a warning: keep a box of kleenex nearby when you read this.