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Bleak House

CHAPTER XIV
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Now that's very creditable, you know.

To confess in that way that he IS a little slow for human life.

So delicate! Attending court the other day--I attend it regularly, with my documents--I taxed him with it, and he almost confessed.

That is, I smiled at him from my bench, and HE smiled at me from his bench.

But it's great good fortune, is it not?
And Fitz-Jarndyce lays the money out for me to great advantage.
Oh, I assure you to the greatest advantage!" I congratulated her (as she addressed herself to me) upon this fortunate addition to her income and wished her a long continuance of it.


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