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oldliterature (18)in #mortimer • 5 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #8/413
Ten or twelve months ago.’ Same Buffer inquires with smartness, ‘What of?’ But herein perishes a melancholy example; being regarded by the three other Buffers with a stony…
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oldliterature (18)in #dust • 15 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #7/413
Coal-dust, vegetable-dust, bone-dust, crockery dust, rough dust and sifted dust,—all manner of Dust.’ A passing remembrance of Mrs Veneering, here induces Mortimer to address…
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oldliterature (18)in #mortimer • 27 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #6/413
‘Now, Mortimer,’ says Lady Tippins, rapping the sticks of her closed green fan upon the knuckles of her left hand—which is particularly rich in knuckles, ‘I insist upon your…
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oldliterature (18)in #veneering • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #5/413
Is appealed to, at the fish stage of the banquet, by Veneering, on the disputed question whether his cousin Lord Snigsworth is in or out of town? Gives it that his cousin is…
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oldliterature (18)in #veneering • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #4/413
Mrs Veneering does not expect that Mr Twemlow can in nature care much for such insipid things as babies, but so old a friend must please to look at baby. ‘Ah! You will know the…
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oldliterature (18)in #veneering • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #3/413
Chapter 2 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE Mr and Mrs Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the Veneerings was spick and…
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oldliterature (18)in #sculled • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #2/413
Until now, the boat had barely held her own, and had hovered about one spot; but now, the banks changed swiftly, and the deepening shadows and the kindling lights of London…
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oldliterature (18)in #mooring • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #1/413
BOOK THE FIRST — THE CUP AND THE LIP Chapter 1 ON THE LOOK OUT In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and…
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