[Bleak House by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBleak House CHAPTER XIV 42/51
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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