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Bleak House

CHAPTER VIII
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She may be right, she may be wrong; but, right or wrong, this is not my course with MY young family.

I take them everywhere." I was afterwards convinced (and so was Ada) that from the ill-conditioned eldest child, these words extorted a sharp yell.

He turned it off into a yawn, but it began as a yell.
"They attend matins with me (very prettily done) at half-past six o'clock in the morning all the year round, including of course the depth of winter," said Mrs.Pardiggle rapidly, "and they are with me during the revolving duties of the day.

I am a School lady, I am a Visiting lady, I am a Reading lady, I am a Distributing lady; I am on the local Linen Box Committee and many general committees; and my canvassing alone is very extensive--perhaps no one's more so.

But they are my companions everywhere; and by these means they acquire that knowledge of the poor, and that capacity of doing charitable business in general--in short, that taste for the sort of thing--which will render them in after life a service to their neighbours and a satisfaction to themselves.


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