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CHAPTER 52

I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION

hen the time Mr. Micawber had appointed so mys-
Wteriously, was within four-and-twenty hours of being
come, my aunt and I consulted how we should proceed; for
my aunt was very unwilling to leave Dora. Ah! how easily I
carried Dora up and down stairs, now!
We were disposed, notwithstanding Mr. Micawber’s
stipulation for my aunt’s attendance, to arrange that she
should stay at home, and be represented by Mr. Dick and
me. In short, we had resolved to take this course, when
Dora again unsettled us by declaring that she never would
forgive herself, and never would forgive her bad boy, if my
aunt remained behind, on any pretence.
‘I won’t speak to you,’ said Dora, shaking her curls at my
aunt. ‘I’ll be disagreeable! I’ll make Jip bark at you all day.
I shall be sure that you really are a cross old thing, if you
don’t go!’
‘Tut, Blossom!’ laughed my aunt. ‘You know you can’t do
without me!’
‘Yes, I can,’ said Dora. ‘You are no use to me at all. You
never run up and down stairs for me, all day long. You nev-

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