[Bleak House by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBleak House CHAPTER XVI 15/20
A pause. "Who lives here ?" "Him wot give him his writing and give me half a bull," says Jo in a whisper without looking over his shoulder. "Go on to the next." Krook's house.
Jo stops again.
A longer pause. "Who lives here ?" "HE lived here," Jo answers as before. After a silence he is asked, "In which room ?" "In the back room up there.
You can see the winder from this corner. Up there! That's where I see him stritched out.
This is the public-ouse where I was took to." "Go on to the next!" It is a longer walk to the next, but Jo, relieved of his first suspicions, sticks to the forms imposed upon him and does not look round.
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