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Bleak House

CHAPTER XIX
14/27

"My instructions are that this boy is to move on." Do you hear, Jo?
It is nothing to you or to any one else that the great lights of the parliamentary sky have failed for some few years in this business to set you the example of moving on.

The one grand recipe remains for you--the profound philosophical prescription--the be-all and the end-all of your strange existence upon earth.

Move on! You are by no means to move off, Jo, for the great lights can't at all agree about that.

Move on! Mr.Snagsby says nothing to this effect, says nothing at all indeed, but coughs his forlornest cough, expressive of no thoroughfare in any direction.

By this time Mr.and Mrs.Chadband and Mrs.Snagsby, hearing the altercation, have appeared upon the stairs.


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