• oldliterature (18)in #burning • 10 hours ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #14/413

  For if I could make him believe that learning was a good thing, and that we might lead better lives, I should be a’most content to die.’ ‘Don’t talk stuff about dying, Liz.’…

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• oldliterature (18)in #inspector • 13 days ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #13/413

  ‘At least,’ said Mr Inspector, ‘you will not object to leave me your card, sir?’ ‘I should not object, if I had one; but I have not.’ He reddened and was much confused as he…

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• oldliterature (18)in #mortimer • 25 days ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #12/413

  Will you come with us?’ A little winding through some muddy alleys that might have been deposited by the last ill-savoured tide, brought them to the wicket-gate and bright…

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• oldliterature (18)in #handbill • last month

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #11/413

  I’ve giv’ notice of the circumstarnce to the police, and the police have took possession of it. No time ain’t been lost, on any hand. The police have put into print already…

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• oldliterature (18)in #brooding • 2 months ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #10/413

  And we have got a precious one.’ ‘There are four of us, with our names painted on a door-post in right of one black hole called a set of chambers,’ said Eugene; ‘and each of us…

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• oldliterature (18)in #mortimer • 2 months ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend #9/413

  Chapter 3 ANOTHER MAN As the disappearing skirts of the ladies ascended the Veneering staircase, Mortimer, following them forth from the dining-room, turned into a library of…

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• oldliterature (18)in #mortimer • 2 months 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 • 3 months 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 • 3 months 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 • 3 months ago

  [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 • 3 months ago

  [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 • 3 months ago

  [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 • 4 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 • 4 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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