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Bleak House

CHAPTER XX
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His satisfaction communicates itself to a third saunterer through the long vacation in Kenge and Carboy's office, to wit, Young Smallweed.
Whether Young Smallweed (metaphorically called Small and eke Chick Weed, as it were jocularly to express a fledgling) was ever a boy is much doubted in Lincoln's Inn.

He is now something under fifteen and an old limb of the law.

He is facetiously understood to entertain a passion for a lady at a cigar-shop in the neighbourhood of Chancery Lane and for her sake to have broken off a contract with another lady, to whom he had been engaged some years.

He is a town-made article, of small stature and weazen features, but may be perceived from a considerable distance by means of his very tall hat.

To become a Guppy is the object of his ambition.


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