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Bleak House

CHAPTER XIV
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"He is celebrated almost everywhere for his deportment." "Does he teach ?" asked Ada.
"No, he don't teach anything in particular," replied Caddy.

"But his deportment is beautiful." Caddy went on to say with considerable hesitation and reluctance that there was one thing more she wished us to know, and felt we ought to know, and which she hoped would not offend us.

It was that she had improved her acquaintance with Miss Flite, the little crazy old lady, and that she frequently went there early in the morning and met her lover for a few minutes before breakfast--only for a few minutes.

"I go there at other times," said Caddy, "but Prince does not come then.
Young Mr.Turveydrop's name is Prince; I wish it wasn't, because it sounds like a dog, but of course he didn't christen himself.

Old Mr.
Turveydrop had him christened Prince in remembrance of the Prince Regent.


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