Friends I Have Made

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Fenn George Manville. Friends I Have Made

Chapter One. My Life

Chapter Two. The Sorrows of Madame Grainger

Chapter Three. My little hero

Chapter Four. A Morning with Misery

Chapter Five. Ruth’s Stepfather

Chapter Six. A Bird in a Cage

Chapter Seven. A Great Trouble

Chapter Eight. As Companion to a Lady

Chapter Nine. My Old Sergeant

Chapter Twelve. Somebody Dead

Chapter Thirteen. Having Patience

Chapter Fourteen. Pengelly’s Weakness

Chapter Fifteen. Salt Tears

Chapter Seventeen. The Empty House

Chapter Eighteen. My Friend in Hospital

Chapter Nineteen. My Old Bookseller

Chapter Twenty. Kate’s Ordeal

Chapter Twenty One. Cobweb’s Father

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I tried so hard to bear up, to keep secret my loss, but it was all in vain. My long days of waiting for that answer had weakened and undermined my constitution, so that I had not strength to bear up against the shock, and the result was a very serious illness during which I was given over by the doctors, but somehow they were wrong. The change was long in coming, but it came, and by degrees I was convalescent, but only the shadow of my former self.

Poor Madame, as we always called her, the French title as she laughingly used to tell me, bringing her ten times as many customers as would have fallen to her lot had she called herself Mrs Grainger, she tended me through my long illness as if she had been my mother, and I believe she loved me dearly. At times I had hinted at being sent away; at the expense and trouble I must be, but she used to lay her hand upon my lips and kiss my forehead.

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“To reach the road above, after climbing a zig-zag path, I had to pass round a bold bluff of chalky rock which projected from the cliff, and effectually concealed the path on the other side.

“I was so used to the way that I almost ran round, when to my horror and astonishment I came roughly in contact with a gentleman walking in the opposite direction.

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