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...n, looking up at it. Captain Jorgan had to look high to look at it, for the village was built sheer up the face of a steep and lofty cliff. There was no road in it, there was no wheeled vehicle in it, there was not a level yard in it. From the sea-beach to the cliff-top two irregular rows of white houses, placed opposite to one another, and twisting here and there....

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...e of absence for a short time; and as I was not in the receipt of any salary, and consequently was not obnoxious to the implacable Jorkins, there was no difficulty about it. I took that opportunity, with my voice sticking in my throat, and my sight failing as I uttered the words, to express my hope that Miss Spenlow was quite well; to which Mr. Spenlow replied, with no mor...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closi...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closi...

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...n of a sick-room. Before I had been confined to it many days, everything else seemed to have retired into a remote distance where there was little or no separation between the various stages of my life which had been really divided by years. In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on ...

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...House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...olume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...olume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , ... ...se seemed to have retired into a remote distance where there was little or no separation between the various stages of my life which had been really d... ...for myself and could have heard (or so I think now) that I was dying, with no other emotion than with a pitying love for those I left behind—this stat... ...ht as it twinkled on me once more, and knew with a boundless joy for which no words are rapturous enough that I should see again. I had heard my Ada c... ...oots out into a halo and becomes a saint. A maid of honour of the court of Charles the Second, with large round eyes (and other charms to correspond),... ...ven suppos ing—. FINIS If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.p...

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... most instances, such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; ?but that?s no rule,? as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad....

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...r? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde o...

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...Excerpt: The reader must not expect to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my readers with me, as I hope to do, and there should spring up between them and me feelings of homely affection and regard attaching something of interest to matters ever so slight...

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...which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December, ....

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... A CHRISTMAS CAROL. IN PROSE. BEING AGhostStoryofChristmas: CHARLES DICKENS 1844 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language R... ... A CHRISTMAS CAROL. IN PROSE. BEING AGhostStoryofChristmas: CHARLES DICKENS 1844 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language Resources... ...ther, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December,... ... CAROL. STA VE ONE. MARLEY’S GHOST M ARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by th... ...ion of Marley’s funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or not...

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...t. Bob Redforth (he?s my cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn?t because he couldn?t. He has no idea of being an editor....

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...e occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books of the time when he rented the House, and there was therefore no need of any clue to his name. But, he himself was less easy to be found; for, he had led a wandering life, and settled people had lost sight of him, and people who plumed themselves on being respectable were shy of admitti...

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...us droning noise, as if they were performing, out of time and tune, on a ruder sort of bagpipe. The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours....

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...een entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public, it appeared, had been until lately bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed--I believe by Richard the Second, but any other king will do as well....

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...own father?s name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at the argument this way: If a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country, how much is he allowed to know in a land of slavery? As to looking at t...

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...nch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together 16. Getting on 17. Missing 18. A Castle in the Air 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air 20. Introduces the next 21. The History of a Self-To...

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...The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the Hungry Forties, a time of social and political unrest, and the book has a strong moral message. It remained popular for many years, although...

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... to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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