in the dim lightlike high-
shouldered ghosts with their hands in their breeches pockets.
Coffin plateselm chipsbright-headed nailsand shreds of black
clothlay scattered on the floor; and the wall behind the counter
was ornamented with a lively representation of two mutes in very
stiff neckclothson duty at a large private doorwith a hearse
drawn by four black steedsapproaching in the distance. The shop
was close and hot; and the atmosphere seemed tainted with the
smell of coffins. The recess beneath the counter in which his flock
mattress was thrustlooked like a grave.
Nor were these the only dismal feelings which depressed
Oliver. He was alone in a strange place; and we all know how
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chilled and desolate the best of us will sometimes feel in such a
situation. The boy had no friends to care foror to care for him.
The regret of no recent separation was fresh in his mind; the
absence of no loved and well-remembered face sank heavily into
his heart. But his heart was heavynotwithstanding; and he
wishedas he crept into his narrow bedthat that were his coffin
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