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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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looked distrustfully at his own limb, andsuspiciously at the pattern with which it has been compared, makesthe point: Ill bet a pound that aint an English one ! An easy wager, when we run so much into foreign ! No, itbelongs to that French gentleman. As he nods towards a point of darkness behind Mr. Wegg, thelatter, with a slight start, looks round for that French gentleman,whom he at length descries to be represented (in a very workman-like manner) by his ribs only, standing on a shelf in anothercorner, like a piece of armour or a pair of stays. Oh ! says Mr. Wegg, with a sort of sense of being introduced; I dare say you were all right enough in your own country, but Ihope no objections will be taken to my saying that the Frenchmanwas never yet born as I should wish to match. At this moment the greasy door is violently pushed inward, anda boy follows it, who says, after having let it slam : Come for the stuffed canary. Its three and ninepence, returns Venus ; have you got themoney 1
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76 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. The boy produces four shillings. Mr. Venus, always in exceed-ingly low spirits, and making whimpering sounds, peers about forthe stuffed canary. On his taking the candle to assist his search,Mr. Wegg observes that he has a convenient little shelf near hisknees, exclusively appropriated to skeleton hands, which have verymuch the appearance of wanting to lay hold of him. From theseMr. Venus rescues the canary in a glass case, and shows it to theboy. There ! he whimpers. Theres animation ! On a twig,making up his mind to hop ! Take care of him; hes a lovely speci-men. — And three is four. The boy gathers up his change and has pulled the door open bya leather strap nailed to it for the purpose, when Venus criesout: Stop him! Come back, you young villain! Youve got atooth among them halfpence. How was I to know Id got it? You giv it me. I dontw^aut none of your teeth, Ive got enough of my own. So the boypipes, as he selects it from his change, and throws it on theco

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