The leader of this small party--for, including himself, they were but
three in number--was our old acquaintance, Mr Tappertit, who seemed,
physically speaking, to have grown smaller with years (particularly as
to his legs, which were stupendously little), but who, in a moral point
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detect this state of feeling in the quondam 'prentice, for it not only
proclaimed itself impressively and beyond mistake in his majestic
walk and kindling eye, but found a striking means of revelation in his
turned-up nose, which scouted all things of earth with deep disdain, and
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two lieutenants; one, the tall comrade of his younger life; the other, a
'Prentice Knight in days of yore--Mark Gilbert, bound in the olden time
to Thomas Curzon of the Golden debt consolidation program Fleece. Quickly David turned out more liquor, and thrust one of the cups into Brokaw's hand. Quite to settle here for a while, in
short. And in the meanwhile leave Bleak House? said I.
Aye, my dear? Bleak House, he returned, must learn to take care
of itself. I thought his tone sounded sorrowful, but looking at him, I saw his
kind face lighted up by its pleasantest smile. Bleak House, he repeated--and his tone did NOT sound sorrowful, I
found--must learn to take care of itself. He had come to look upon debt consolidation program felony as a kind of disorder,
like the scarlet fever or erysipelas: some people had it--some
hadn't--just as it might be.
'Oh! my darling Kit,' said his mother, whom Barbara's mother had
charitably relieved of the baby, 'that I should see my poor boy here!
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'
'You don't believe that I did what they accuse me debt consolidation program of, mother dear? '
cried Kit, in a choking voice. 'I believe it!' exclaimed the poor woman, 'I that never knew you tell a
lie, or do a bad action from your cradle--that have never had a
moment's sorrow on your account, except it was the poor meals that you
have taken with such good humour and content, that debt consolidation program I forgot how little
there was, when I thought how kind and thoughtful you were, though you
were but a child!
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