:52:02
I was told to bring him here, which I did,
keeping him in the garret.
:52:06
Neglect made him sickly.
:52:09
Mr. Brooker consulted a doctor...
:52:11
who said he must be removed from the city
for a change of air...
:52:15
or he would die.
:52:19
But he did die. I know that.
:52:23
At last I can say it.
:52:25
I told you that the boy had died,
but he had not.
:52:32
I had heard, like most men,
of Yorkshire schools.
:52:36
So I took the child to one
kept by a man named Squeers.
:52:41
I was able to pay the fees myself,
but then my troubles took over...
:52:44
and I was sent away out of this country.
:52:47
When I returned, nearly eight years later,
I sought you out.
:52:51
But you repulsed me.
:52:53
So I found out your clerk...
:52:56
and showed him there were good reasons
for communicating with me.
:52:59
I told him my story.
:53:01
But just to be sure that the boy
I was thinking of was the same boy...
:53:06
I went to Devonshire,
and knew at once that it was.
:53:13
Did Squeers...
:53:15
know who the child was?
:53:19
No.
:53:21
I told him his name was Smike.
:53:36
Then the crippled boy...
:53:42
is my son.
:53:44
Was your son.
:53:48
That boy, whose loving cheerfulness
and sweetness of heart...
:53:52
could have been
the life-saving comfort you need...
:53:56
as all your fortune falls away...
:53:58
that boy now sleeps in the ground...