[Bleak House by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBleak House CHAPTER XIV 41/51
Have you heard of her good fortune ?" "Most extraordinary!" said Miss Flite, smiling brightly.
"You never heard of such a thing, my dear! Every Saturday, Conversation Kenge or Guppy (clerk to Conversation K.) places in my hand a paper of shillings.Shillings.I assure you! Always the same number in the paper.
Always one for every day in the week.
Now you know, really! So well-timed, is it not? Ye-es! From whence do these papers come, you say? That is the great question.Naturally.Shall I tell you what I think? I think," said Miss Flite, drawing herself back with a very shrewd look and shaking her right forefinger in a most significant manner, "that the Lord Chancellor, aware of the length of time during which the Great Seal has been open (for it has been open a long time!), forwards them.
Until the judgment I expect is given.
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