Chapter 79
The Porter's SonTHE General lived in the grand first floor, and the porter
lived in the cellar. There was a great distance between the two
families—the whole of the ground floor, and the difference in rank;
but they lived in the same house, and both had a view of the
street, and of the courtyard. In the courtyard was a grass-plot, on
which grew a blooming acacia tree (when it was in bloom), and under
this tree sat occasionally the finely-dressed nurse, with the still
more finely-dressed child of the General—little Emily. Before them
danced about barefoot the little son of the porter, with his great
brown eyes and dark hair; and the little girl smiled at him, and
stretched out her hands towards him; and when the General saw that
from the window, he would nod his head
