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"AND SOLOMON DAISY, WITH A LIGHTED LANTERN IN HIS HAND,DASHED INTO THE ROOM." Barnaby Rudge.]
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(DAVID COPPERFIELD)
was defying my aunt to such a furious extent, that he couldn't keepstraight, but barked himself sideways. The more my aunt looked at him,the more he reproached her; for, she had lately taken to spectacles, andfor some inscrutable reason he considered the glasses personal.
Dora made him lie down by her, with a good deal of persuasion; and whenhe was quiet, drew one of his long ears through and through her hand,repeating thoughtfully, "Even little Jip! Oh, poor fellow!"
"His lungs are good enough," said my aunt gaily, "and his dislikes arenot at all feeble. He has a good many years before him, no doubt. But ifyou want a dog to race with, Little Blossom, he has lived too well forthat, and I'll give you one."
"Thank you, aunt," said Dora, faintly. "But don't, please!"
"No?" said my aunt, taking off her spectacles.
"I couldn't have any other dog but Jip," said Dora. "It would be sounkind to Jip! Besides, I couldn't be such friends with any other dogbut Jip; because he wouldn't have known me before I was married, andwouldn't have barked at Doady when he first came to our house. Icouldn't care for any other dog but Jip, I am afraid, aunt."
"To be sure!" said my aunt, patting her cheek again. "You are right."
"You are not offended," said Dora. "Are you?"
"Why, what a sensitive pet it is!" cried my aunt, bending over heraffectionately. "To think that I could be offended!"
"No, no, I didn't really think so," returned Dora; "but I am a littletired, and it made me silly for a moment--I am always a silly littlething, you know; but it made me more silly--to talk about Jip. He hasknown me in all that has happened to me, haven't you, Jip? And Icouldn't bear to slight him, because he was a little altered--could I,Jip?"
Jip nestled closer to his mistress, and lazily licked her hand.
"You are not so old, Jip, are you, that you'll leave your mistress yet,"said Dora. "We may keep one another company a little longer!"
My pretty Dora! When she came down to dinner on
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