Charlotte Riddell
Charlotte Riddell
Image Attribution: Elliott & Fry photograph, by courtesy of Jennifer Carnell (Public domain)

"How should I have got through Christmas Day, had Mr. Trosdale not invited me?" was the one idea which kept constantly recurring to his mind. "I must have walked the streets, for I could not possibly have stayed indoors."
On the last 25th of December he had refused to go to Sea Court because his uncle did not care to accompany him, and the dear old man seemed low.

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