Show little nell little nell or netty trent Is conf ot of the outstanding characters in dico dick ens novel the old curiosity shop i and one of the sweetest yet more inert pathetic characters in all ot of DIC Dickens 1 books little nell Is a sweet ln loving child of fourteen years brought up by her old miserly grandfather who gambled away all bis big money her days were monotonous and without youthful companionship her ter eye ere aings gloomy and solitary the grandfather being w holly ruined by gambling the two went forth as bet beggars gars and ultimately settled down in a cottage adjoining a country churchyard hero here nelly died and the old grandfather toon soon afterwards NN was as found letl upon her grave |