Show little nell little nell or hetty netty trent Is one on of the outstanding characters in dick ons ene novel the old curiosity shop land and one of the sweetest yet moat most pathetic characters in all of dickens books little nell Is a sweet innocent loving child of fourteen years brought up by her old miserly grandfather who gambled away all bis his money aher her days were monotonous and with lout out youthful companionship her evenings gloomy and solitary the grand father being wholly ruined by gam ibling the two went forth as beggars and ultimately settled down in a cot tage adjoining a country churchyard here nelly died and the old grandfather soon afterwards was vias found dead upon her grave |