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Bleak House

CHAPTER XVIII
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It's in better keeping.

I am looked upon about here as a second Ajax defying the lightning.

Ha ha ha ha! When I go into our little church on a Sunday, a considerable part of the inconsiderable congregation expect to see me drop, scorched and withered, on the pavement under the Dedlock displeasure.

Ha ha ha ha! I have no doubt he is surprised that I don't.

For he is, by heaven, the most self-satisfied, and the shallowest, and the most coxcombical and utterly brainless ass!" Our coming to the ridge of a hill we had been ascending enabled our friend to point out Chesney Wold itself to us and diverted his attention from its master.
It was a picturesque old house in a fine park richly wooded.


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