The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Dickens, Charles

After combating, for nearly a week, the feeling which impelled me to revisit the place I had quitted under the circumstances already detailed, I yielded to it at length; and determining that this time I would present myself by the light of day, bent my steps thither early in the morning.I walked past the house, and took several turns in the street, with that kind of hesitation which is natural to a man who is conscious that the visit he is about to pay is unexpected, and may not be very acceptable. However, as the door of the shop was shut, and it did not appear likely that I should be recognized by those within, if I continued merely to pass up and down before it, I soon conquered this irresolution, and found myself in the Curiosity Dealer's warehouse.The old man and another person were together in the back part, and there seemed to have been high words between them, for their voices which were raised to a very high pitch suddenly stopped on my entering, and the old man advancing hastily towards me, said in a tremulous tone that he was very glad I had come.'You interrupted us at a critical moment, ' said he, pointing to the man whom I had found in company with him; 'this fellow will murder me one of these days. He would have done so, long ago, if he had dared.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08ZQJ77S7
• ISBN13: 9798724042895
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4