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David Copperfield

CHAPTER 11
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Sold it was, however, and carried away in a van; except the bed, a few chairs, and the kitchen table.

With these possessions we encamped, as it were, in the two parlours of the emptied house in Windsor Terrace; Mrs.Micawber, the children, the Orfling, and myself; and lived in those rooms night and day.

I have no idea for how long, though it seems to me for a long time.

At last Mrs.Micawber resolved to move into the prison, where Mr.
Micawber had now secured a room to himself.

So I took the key of the house to the landlord, who was very glad to get it; and the beds were sent over to the King's Bench, except mine, for which a little room was hired outside the walls in the neighbourhood of that Institution, very much to my satisfaction, since the Micawbers and I had become too used to one another, in our troubles, to part.


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