Mugby Junction. Charles Dickens

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СКАЧАТЬ I must not forget,” said Barbox Brothers, “(having got so far) to ask a favour. I want your help in this expedient of mine. I want to bring you what I pick up at the heads of the seven roads that you lie here looking out at, and to compare notes with you about it. May I? They say two heads are better than one. I should say myself that probably depends upon the heads concerned. But I am quite sure, though we are so newly acquainted, that your head and your father’s have found out better things, Phœbe, than ever mine of itself discovered.”

      She gave him her sympathetic right hand, in perfect rapture with his proposal, and eagerly and gratefully thanked him.

      “That’s well!” said Barbox Brothers. “Again I must not forget (having got so far) to ask a favour. Will you shut your eyes?”

      Laughing playfully at the strange nature of the request, she did so.

      “Keep them shut,” said Barbox Brothers, going softly to the door, and coming back. “You are on your honour, mind, not to open your eyes until I tell you that you may?”

      “Yes! On my honour.”

      “Good. May I take your lace-pillow from you for a minute?”

      Still laughing and wondering, she removed her hands from it, and he put it aside.

      “Tell me. Did you see the puffs of smoke and steam made by the morning fast-train yesterday on road number seven from here?”

      “Behind the elm-trees and the spire?”

      “That’s the road,” said Barbox Brothers, directing his eyes towards it.

      “Yes. I watched them melt away.”

      “Anything unusual in what they expressed?”

      “No!” she answered merrily.

      “Not complimentary to me, for I was in that train. I went—don’t open your eyes—to fetch you this, from the great ingenious town. It is not half so large as your lace-pillow, and lies easily and lightly in its place. These little keys are like the keys of a miniature piano, and you supply the air required with your left hand. May you pick out delightful music from it, my dear! For the present—you can open your eyes now—good-bye!”

      In his embarrassed way, he closed the door upon himself, and only saw, in doing so, that she ecstatically took the present to her bosom and caressed it. The glimpse gladdened his heart, and yet saddened it; for so might she, if her youth had flourished in its natural course, have taken to her breast that day the slumbering music of her own child’s voice.

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