Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird — a poor slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crushed — was stirring nimbly in its cage ; and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever. Master Humphrey's Clock - Page 178by Charles Dickens - 1847Full view - About this book
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