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Bleak House

CHAPTER XVI
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Don't look back.
Do what I want, and I will pay you well." Jo attends closely while the words are being spoken; tells them off on his broom-handle, finding them rather hard; pauses to consider their meaning; considers it satisfactory; and nods his ragged head.
"I'm fly," says Jo.

"But fen larks, you know.

Stow hooking it!" "What does the horrible creature mean ?" exclaims the servant, recoiling from him.
"Stow cutting away, you know!" says Jo.
"I don't understand you.

Go on before! I will give you more money than you ever had in your life." Jo screws up his mouth into a whistle, gives his ragged head a rub, takes his broom under his arm, and leads the way, passing deftly with his bare feet over the hard stones and through the mud and mire.
Cook's Court.

Jo stops.


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