Part 44 (1/2)
”I should be very sorry to leave you.”
”Yes, but that's not going to be! Why do you stay with papa? Were you in the house always--ever so long before I saw you?”
”No; a very little while only.”
”Did you come in from the street?”
”Yes; I came in from the street. Your papa pays me to work for him.”
”And if you wouldn't?”
”Then I should have no money, and nothing to eat, and nowhere to sleep at night.”
”Would that make you uncomfable?”
”It would make me die.”
”Have you a papa?”
”Yes, but he's far away.”
”You could go to him, couldn't you?”
”One day I shall.”
”Why don't you go now, and take me?”
”Because he died.”
”What's _died_?”
”Went away out of sight, where we can't go to look for him till we go out of sight too.”
”When will that be?”
”I don't know.”
”Does anybody know?”
”n.o.body.”
”Then perhaps you will never go?”
”We must go; it's only that n.o.body knows when.”
”I think the when that n.o.body knows, mayn't never come.--Is that why you have to work?”
”Everybody has to work one way or another.”
”I haven't to work!”