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E ight o’clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers. All that water-side
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E ight o’clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers. All that water-side
F or eleven years, I had not seen Joe nor Biddy with my bodily eyes,—though they had both been often before my fancy in…
T he tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down to my native place and its neighbourhood before I…
N ow that I was left wholly to myself, I gave notice of my intention to quit the chambers in the Temple as soon as my t…
H e lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his committal for trial and the coming round of the Sessi…
H e was taken to the Police Court next day, and would have been immediately committed for trial, but that it was necess…
I t was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and wi…
I t was a dark night, though the full moon rose as I left the enclosed lands, and passed out upon the marshes. Beyond t…
F rom Little Britain I went, with my check in my pocket, to Miss Skiffins’s brother, the accountant; and Miss Skiffins’…
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