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Title: Our mutual friend
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896, ed
Subjects: Inheritance and succession Social classes Poor families Deception
Publisher: New York, London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr. Lammletakes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and bringing them to-gether, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush. Do / mean to say ! Mrs. Lammle after a time repeats, withindignation. Putting it on me ! The unmanly disingenuousness! Mr. Lammle stops, releases his whiskers, and looks at her. Thewhat? Mrs. Lammle haughtily replies, without stopping, and withoutlooking back. The meanness. He is at her side again in a pace or two, and he retorts, Thatis not what you said. You said disingenuousness. What if I did? There is no if in the case. You did. I did, then. And what of it ? What of it? says Mr. Lammle. Have you the face to utterthe word to me ? The face, too ! replied Mrs. Lammle, staring at him with coldscorn. Pray, how dare you, sir, utter the word to me ? I never did. As this happens to be true, Mrs. Lammle is thrown on thefeminine resource of saying, I dont care what you uttered or didnot utter.
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fCillE OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 117 After a little more walking and a little more silence, Mr. Lammlebreaks the latter. You shall proceed in your own way. You claim a right to askme do I mean to tell you. Do I mean to tell you what ? That you are a man of property ? No. Then you married me on false pretences ? So be it. Next comes what you mean to say. Do you meanto say you are a woman of property ? No. Then you married me on false pretences. If you were so dull a fortune-hunter that you deceived yourself,or if you were so greedy and grasping that you were over-willing to bedeceived by appearances, is it my fault, you adventurer ? the ladydemands, with great asperity. I asked Yeneering, and he told me you were rich. Veneering ! with great contempt. And what does Veneeringknow about me ? Was he not your trustee ? No. I have no trustee, but the one you saw on the day whenyou fraudulently married me. And his trust is not a very difficultone, for it is only an annuity of a hundred and fifteen p

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