Quickly David turned out more liquor, and thrust one of the cups into Brokaw's hand. Quite to settle here for a while, in
short. And in the meanwhile leave Bleak House? said I.
Aye, my dear? Bleak House, he returned, must learn to take care
of itself. I thought his tone sounded sorrowful, but looking at him, I saw his
kind face lighted up by its pleasantest medical marijuana us prescription smile. Bleak House, he repeated--and his tone did NOT sound sorrowful, I
found--must learn to take care of itself. He had come to look upon felony as a kind of disorder,
like the scarlet fever or erysipelas: some people had it--some
hadn't--just as it might be.
'Oh! my darling Kit,' said his mother, whom Barbara's mother had
charitably relieved of the baby, 'that I should see my poor boy medical marijuana us prescription here! '
'You don't believe that I did what they accuse me of, mother dear? '
cried Kit, in a choking voice. 'I believe it!' exclaimed the poor woman, 'I that never knew you tell a
lie, or do a bad action from your cradle--that have never had a
moment's sorrow on your account, except it was the poor meals that you
have taken with such good humour and content, that I forgot how little
there was, when I thought how kind and thoughtful you were, though you
were but a child! --I believe it of the son that's been a comfort to me
from the hour of his birth until this time, and that medical marijuana us prescription I never laid down
one night in anger with! I believe it of you Kit!--'
'Why then, thank God!' said Kit, clutching the bars with an earnestness
that shook them, 'and I can bear it, mother! Come what may, I shall
always have one drop of happiness in my heart when I think that you
said that. '
At this the poor woman fell a-crying again, and Barbara's mother medical marijuana us prescription too.
And little Jacob, whose disjointed thoughts had by this time resolved
themselves into a pretty distinct impression that Kit couldn't go out
for a walk if he wanted, and that there were no birds, lions, tigers or
other natural curiosities behind those bars--nothing indeed, but a
caged brother--added his tears to theirs with as little noise as
possible.
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Kit's mother, drying her eyes (and moistening them, poor soul, more
than she dried them), now took from the ground a small basket, and
submissively addressed herself to the turnkey, saying, would he please
to listen to her for a minute? The turnkey, being in the very crisis
and passion of a joke, medical marijuana us prescription motioned to her with his hand to keep silent one
minute longer, for her life. George rises to depart. He no longer saw anything to dread in the white wilderness.
ñ.39 ñ.40 ñ.41
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