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Title: Dicken's works
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: Boston : Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, and everypossible manifestation of reluctance. When he is at last adjusted like a lay-figure, Mr.Chadband, retiring behind the table, holds up hisbears paw, and says, My friends ! This is thesignal for a general settlement of the audience.The prentices giggle internally, and nudge eachother. Guster falls into a staring and vacant state,
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BLEAK HOUSE. 107 compounded of stunned admiration of Mr. Chadbandand pity for the friendless outcast whose conditiontouches her nearly. Mrs. Snagsby silently laystrains of gunpowder. Mrs. Chadband composes her-self grimly by the fire, and warms her knees : find-ing that sensation favorable to the reception ofeloquence. It happens that Mr. Chadband has a pulpit habitof fixing some member of his congregation withhis eye, and fatly arguing his points with that par-ticular person; who is understood to be expected tobe moved to an occasional grunt, groan, gasp, orother audible expression of inward working; whichexpression of inward working, being echoed bysome elderly lady in the next pew, and so communi-cated, like a game of forfeits, through a circle ofthe more fermentable sinners present, serves thepurpose of parliamentary cheering, and gets Mr.Chadbands steam up. From mere force of habit,Mr. Chadband, in saying My friends ! has restedhis eye on Mr. Snagsby; and proceeds to make thatill

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