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Title: Our mutual friend
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Subjects: Inheritance and succession Social classes Poor families Deception
Publisher: New York : J. Bradburn, 1864-65
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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his shirt-collar, could onlyhave heard himself called that fellow in a certain 216 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. short dialogue, which passed between Mr. and Mrs. Lam-mle in their opposite corners of their little carriage, roll-ing home ! Sophronia, are you awake ? Am I likely to be asleep, Sir ? Very likely, I should think, after that fellows com-pany. Attend to what I am going to say. I have attended to what you have already said,have I not ? What else have I been doing all to-uight V Attend, I tell you (in a raised voice), to what Iam going to say. Keep close to that idiot girl. Keepher under your thumb. You have her fast, and you arenot to let her go. Do you hear ? I hear you. 111 foresee there is money to be made out of this, be-sides taking that fellow down a peg. We owe each othermoney, you know. Mrs. Lammle winced a little at the reminder, but onlyenough to shake her scents and essences anew into theatmosphere? of the little carriage, as she settled herselfafresh in her own dark corner.
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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 217 CHAPTER XII. Mr. Mortimer Lightwood and Mr. Eugene Wrayburntook a coffee-house dinner together in Mr. Lightwoodsoffice. They had newly agreed to set up a joint estab-lishment together. They had taken a bachelor cottagenear Hampton, on the brink of the Thames, with a lawn,and a boat-house, and all things fitting, and were to floatwith the stream through the summer and the Long Va-cation. It was not summer yet,- but spring ; and it was notgentle spring ethereally mild, as in Thomsons Seasons,but nipping spring with an easterly wind, as in Johnsons,Jacksons, Dicksons, Smiths, and Joness Seasons. Thegrating wind sawed rather than blew ; and as it sawed,the saw-dust whirled about the saw-pit. Every street wasa saw-pit, and there were no top-sawyers ; every passen-ger was an under-sawyer, with the saw-dust blinding himand choking him. That mysterious paper currency which circulates in Lon-don when the wind blows, gyrated here and there andevery where. Whence can it co

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