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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s a dreary one at that time;as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night as anyabout London. There were neither wharves norhouses on the melancholy waste of road near thegreat blank Prison. A sluggish ditch deposited itsmud at the prison walls. Coarse grass and rankweeds straggled over all the marshy land in thevicinity. In one part, carcases of houses, inauspi-ciously begun and never finished, rotted away. Inanother, the ground was cumbered with rusty ironmonsters of steam-boilers, wheels, cranks, pipes,furnaces, paddles, anchors, diving-bells, windmill-sails, and I know not what strange objects, accumu-lated by some speculator, and grovelling in the dust,underneath which — having sunk into the soil oftheir own weight in wet weather — they had theappearance of vainly trying to hide themselves.The clash and glare of sundry fiery Works upon theriver-side arose by night to disturb everything,except the heavy and unbroken smoke that pouredout of their chimneys. Slimy gaps and causeways,
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Wwl Ill I DAVID COPPERFEBLD. 147 winding among old wooden piles, with a sickly sub-stance clinging to the latter, like green hair, and therags of last years handbills offering rewards fordrowned men fluttering above high-water mark, leddown through the ooze and slush to the ebb tide.There was a story that one of the pits dug for thedead in the time of the Great Plague was here-about: and a blighting influence seemed to haveproceeded from it over the whole place. Or else itlooked as if it had gradually decomposed into thatnightmare condition, out of the overflowings of thepolluted stream. As if she were a part of the refuse it had castout, and left to corruption and decay, the girl wehad followed strayed down to the rivers brink, andstood in the midst of this night-picture, lonely andstill, looking at the water. There were some boats and barges astrand in themud. and these enabled us to come within a fewyards of her without being seem I then signed toMr. Peggotty to remain where he was

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