said the little girl ; `` why , I know you now . You are the very same little chimney-sweep who came into my bedroom . '' `` Dear me ! '' cried Tom . `` And I know you , too , now . You are the very little white lady whom I saw in bed . '' And he jumped at her , and longed to hug and kiss her ; but did not , remembering that she was a lady born ; so he only jumped round and round her till he was quite tired . And then they began telling each other all their story -- how he had got into the water , and she had fallen over the rock ; and how he had swum down to the sea , and how she had flown out of the window ; and how this , that , and the other , till it was all talked out : and then they both began over again , and I ca n't say which of the two talked fastest . And then they set to work at their lessons again , and both liked them so well that they went on well till seven full years were past and gone . You may fancy that Tom was quite content and happy all those seven years ; but the truth is , he was not . He had always one thing on his mind , and that was -- where little Ellie went , when she went home on Sundays . To a very beautiful place , she said . But what was the beautiful place like , and where was it ? Ah ! that is just what she could not say . And it is strange , but true , that no one can say ; and that those who have been oftenest in it , or even nearest to it , can say least about it , and make people understand least what it is like . There are a good many folks about the Other-end-of-Nowhere -LRB- where Tom went afterwards -RRB- , who pretend to know it from north to south as well as if they had been penny postmen there ; but , as they are safe at the Other-end-of - Nowhere , nine hundred and ninety-nine million miles away , what they say can not concern us . But the dear , sweet , loving , wise , good , self-sacrificing people , who really go there , can never tell you anything about it , save that it is the most beautiful place in all the world ; and , if you ask them more , they grow modest , and hold their peace , for fear of being laughed at ; and quite right they are . So all that good little Ellie could say was , that it was worth all the rest of the world put together . And of course that only made Tom the more anxious to go likewise .
`` Miss Ellie , '' he said at last , `` I will know why I can not go with you when you go home XXXXX Sundays , or I shall have no peace , and give you none either . ''
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