Show LITTLE NELL WAS ORIGINAL DeQuince ys our lady of tears ie ars did not suggest the character to dickens it la Is remarked of charles dickens that ap modern modera writer was less lesa open to the charge of having received suggestions gest lons ions from the characters arki ami plots of his novels from others than was he be and this for the reason that his plots and characters were cho from books but from people and incidents in the living world about him some time ago however an english author thought that he had bad found in DeQuince ys essay our lady vt v tears the suggestion for the beadal ful pathos of little nell in the old curiosity shop A little investigation however showed that da QuInce ys essay was published in while tho the old curiosity shop was waa published five years before the extract here given from DeQuin ceya essay Is interesting the oldest eliest of the three sisters bisters Is named mater um rum our lady of tears the sister it Is that carries carried keys more than papal at her girdle which open every cottage and every palace she to my knowledge sate sata all last summer by the bedside of tho the blind beggar him that so often and BO gladly I 1 talked with whose chos e p IOUs daug daughter eight years old with tho the sunny bunny countenance restated resisted the temptations of play and tillage mirth t to travel all day long on dusty roads road with her afflicted father for this did god send her a great reward in taa or of tho the year and whilst yet her ber own spring was bul budding ding ile H called her to himself but her blind father mourns for ever over her still he bo dreams at midnight that the little guiding hand Is locked within his own and nd still he wakens to a darkness that to Is now within a second and deeper darkness |