Our Mutual Friend |
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Author:
| Dickens, Charles |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-02713-7 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $39.62 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: if that wasn't stunning enough, Commodious, in another character, kills ' em all off in a hundred goes As if that wasn't stunning enough, Vittle-us (and well named too) eats six millions' worth English money, in seven months Wegg takes it easy but upon-my-soul to an old bird like myself these are...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: if that wasn't stunning enough, Commodious, in another character, kills ' em all off in a hundred goes As if that wasn't stunning enough, Vittle-us (and well named too) eats six millions' worth English money, in seven months Wegg takes it easy but upon-my-soul to an old bird like myself these are scarers. And even now that Commodious is strangled, I don't see a way to our bettering ourselves. Mr. Boffin added as he turned his pensive steps towards the Bower and shook his head, I didn't think this morning there was half so many Scarers in Print. But I'm in for it now CHAPTER VI. CUT ADRIFT. THE Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters, already mentioned as a tavern of a dropsical appearance, had long settled down into a state of hale infirmity. In its whole constitution it had not a straight floor, and hardly a straight line; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet outlast, many a better-trimmed building, many a sprucer public-house. Externally, it was a narrow lopsided wooden jumble of corpulent windows heaped one upon another as you might heap as many toppling oranges, with a crazy wooden verandah impending over the water; indeed the whole house, inclusive of the complaining flag-staff on the roof, impended over the water, but seemed to have got into the condition of a faint-hearted diver who has paused so long on the brink that he will never go in at all. This description applies to the river-frontage of the Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters. The back of the establishment, though the chief entrance was there, so contracted that it merely represented, in its connection with the front, the handle of a flat iron set upright on its broadest end. This handle stood at the bottom of a wilderness of court and alley: which wilderness pressed so hard and close upon the Six Joll...