''Oh yes, you must!''
I made no answer, only smiled, and took a step away from them; then I thought of something, and beckoned to Jenny again.♀本♀作♀品♀由♀思♀兔♀在♀線♀閱♀讀♀網♀友♀整♀理♀上♀傳♀
''That picture,'' I said quietly when she was close. ''Do you think - would Mrs Swindles mind - do you think that I might
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have it, for myself?'' She put her hand to her pocket at once, and drew out the creased and faded photograph, and passed it to me.
''You take it,'' she said; then she could not help but ask, a little wonderingly, ''But have you none of your own? I should''ve thought
''Between you and me,'' I said, ''I left the business rather fast. I lost a lot of stuff, and never cared to think of it till now. This, however -'' I gazed down at the photo. ''Well, it won''t hurt me, will it, to have this little reminder?''
''I hope it won''t, indeed,'' she answered kindly. Then she looked past me, to Florence and the others. ''Your girl is a-waiting for you,'' she said with a smile. I put the picture in the pocket of my coat.
''So she is,'' I said absently. ''So she is.''
I joined my friends; we picked our way across the crowded room, and hauled ourselves up the treacherous staircase into the aching cold of the February night. Outside The Frigate the road was dark and quiet; from Cable Street, ho