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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

... seen him very ill before, but not so ill as he has been tonight.’ ‘What a Providence!’ said the landlady of the Dragon, ‘that you had the prescriptio... ...he least regard (but he never had much) for the tailors’, where the newest metropolitan waistcoat patterns were hanging up, which by some strange tran... ...n Saturdays; together with a frequent gleaming of mysterious lights in the area; much working at the pump; and a constant jangling of the iron handle ... ...esent, and committing all per- sons who had nothing to eat, to the care of Providence; whose business (so said the grace, in effect) it clearly was, t... ... name of ‘Pawkins’ was engraved; and four accidental pigs looking down the area. The colonel knocked at this house with the air of a man who lived the... ...rs Gamp, with an apologetic curtsey. ‘So be it,’ replied Mr Mould, ‘please Providence. No, Mrs Gamp; I’ll tell you why it is. It’s because the laying ...

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