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than you expect.
This being; [sic] if your ladies will trust themselves to me any day, I shall have great pleasure in escorting them in their sight-seeing, and will call upon them with my carriage, if that be possible.”
He did take them about a great deal; they dined with him, and passed more than one delightful evening at his house.
Another of their early visitors was Charles Dickens.
Not only did he invite them to dine, but he took them to all manner of places unfamiliar to the ordinary tourist: to prisons, workhouses, and asylums, more interesting to the Chevalier than theatre or picture-gallery.
There were even expeditions to darker places, when Julia and Annie must stay at home.
Dr. Howe's affair was with all sorts and conditions of men, and the creator of Joe and Oliver Twist, the child of the Marshalsea, could show him things that no one else could.
The following note, in Dickens's unmistakable handwriting, shows how these expeditions were managed, and how he enjoyed them:--
Horace Mann was of the party on most of these investigations.
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