Indeed you do. But I hope she may
like me, Tom.'
'Oh, she is sure to do that!' cried Tom, confidently.
'What a number of friends I should have, if everybody was of your way of
thinking. Shouldn't I, Tom, dear?' said his little sister pinching him
upon the cheek.
Tom laughed, and said that with reference to this particular case he had
no doubt at all of finding a disciple in Merry. 'For you women,' said
Tom, 'you women, my dear, are so kind, and in your kindness have such
nice perception; you know so well how to be affectionate and full of
solicitude without appearing to be; your gentleness of feeling is like
your touch so light and easy, that the one enables you to deal with
wounds of the mind as tenderly as the other enables you to deal with
wounds of the body. You are such--'
'My goodness, Tom!' his sister interposed. 'You ought to fall in love
immediately.'
Tom put this observation off good humouredly, but somewhat gravely too;
and they were soon very chatty again on some other subject.
As they were passing through a street in the City, not very far from Mrs
Todgers's place of residence, Ruth checked Tom before the window of
a large Upholstery and Furniture Warehouse, to call his attention to
something very magnificent and ingenious, displayed there to the best
advantage, for the admiration and temptation of the public.
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