'
'Don't you--don't you live anywhere, dear?' asked Tom's sister looking
wistfully in his face.
'No,' said Tom. 'Not at present. Not exactly. I only arrived this
morning. We must have some lodgings.'
He didn't tell her that he had been going to stay with his friend John,
and could on no account think of billeting two inmates upon him, of whom
one was a young lady; for he knew that would make her uncomfortable,
and would cause her to regard herself as being an inconvenience to him.
Neither did he like to leave her anywhere while he called on John, and
told him of this change in his arrangements; for he was delicate of
seeming to encroach upon the generous and hospitable nature of his
friend. Therefore he said again, 'We must have some lodgings, of
course;' and said it as stoutly as if he had been a perfect Directory
and Guide-Book to all the lodgings in London.
'Where shall we go and look for 'em?' said Tom. 'What do you think?'
Tom's sister was not much wiser on such a topic than he was. So she
squeezed her little purse into his coat-pocket, and folding the little
hand with which she did so on the other little hand with which she
clasped his arm, said nothing.
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