a good woman she was , and might have been a happy one , in her little school there in Vendale , if it had n't been for me and my bad ways . '' `` Did she keep the school in Vendale ? '' asked Tom . And then he told Grimes all the story of his going to her house , and how she could not abide the sight of a chimney-sweep , and then how kind she was , and how he turned into a water-baby . `` Ah ! '' said Grimes , `` good reason she had to hate the sight of a chimney-sweep . I ran away from her and took up with the sweeps , and never let her know where I was , nor sent her a penny to help her , and now it 's too late -- too late ! '' said Mr. Grimes . And he began crying and blubbering like a great baby , till his pipe dropped out of his mouth , and broke all to bits . `` Oh , dear , if I was but a little chap in Vendale again , to see the clear beck , and the apple-orchard , and the yew-hedge , how different I would go on ! But it 's too late now . So you go along , you kind little chap , and do n't stand to look at a man crying , that 's old enough to be your father , and never feared the face of man , nor of worse neither . But I 'm beat now , and beat I must be . I 've made my bed , and I must lie on it . Foul I would be , and foul I am , as an Irishwoman said to me once ; and little I heeded it . It 's all my own fault : but it 's too late . '' And he cried so bitterly that Tom began crying too . `` Never too late , '' said the fairy , in such a strange soft new voice that Tom looked up at her ; and she was so beautiful for the moment , that Tom half fancied she was her sister . No more was it too late . For , as poor Grimes cried and blubbered on , his own tears did what his mother 's could not do , and Tom 's could not do , and nobody 's on earth could do for him ; for they washed the soot off his face and off his clothes ; and then they washed the mortar away from between the bricks ; and the chimney crumbled down ; and Grimes began to get out of it .
Up jumped the truncheon , and was going XXXXX hit him on the crown a tremendous thump , and drive him down again like a cork into a bottle .
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