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STRONG OF PURPOSE The sexton-task of piling earth above John Harmon all night long, was not conducive to sound sleep; but Rokesmith had some broken morning rest, and rose strengthened in his purpose…
THE WHOLE CASE SO FAR Bradley Headstone held fast by that other interview he was to have with Lizzie Hexam. In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and …
AN ANNIVERSARY OCCASION The estimable Twemlow, dressing himself in his lodgings over the stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James’s, and hearing the horses at their toilette below, finds himself on t…
LODGERS IN QUEER STREET It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London wa…
A RESPECTED FRIEND IN A NEW ASPECT In the evening of this same foggy day when the yellow window-blind of Pubsey and Co. was drawn down upon the day’s work, Riah the Jew once more came forth into Sai…
THE SAME RESPECTED FRIEND IN MORE ASPECTS THAN ONE In sooth, it is Riderhood and no other, or it is the outer husk and shell of Riderhood and no other, that is borne into Miss Abbey’s first-floor be…
A HAPPY RETURN OF THE DAY Mr and Mrs Wilfer had seen a full quarter of a hundred more anniversaries of their wedding day than Mr and Mrs Lammle had seen of theirs, but they still celebrated the occa…
THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN FALLS INTO BAD COMPANY Were Bella Wilfer’s bright and ready little wits at fault, or was the Golden Dustman passing through the furnace of proof and coming out dross? Ill news tra…
THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN FALLS INTO WORSE COMPANY It had come to pass that Mr Silas Wegg now rarely attended the minion of fortune and the worm of the hour, at his (the worm’s and minion’s) own house, but…
THE FRIENDLY MOVE TAKES UP A STRONG POSITION The friendly movers sat upright on the floor, panting and eyeing one another, after Mr Boffin had slammed the gate and gone away. In the weak eyes of Ven…
