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Title: Master Humphrey's clock
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, ill Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
Subjects: Gordon Riots, 1780
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ne some pecuniarysacrifice if he could have shifted his present raw quarters to a warm room, andhave dried himself at a fire. Quilp, however,—who, beyond the gratificationof his demon whims, owed Sampson some acknowledgment of the part he hadplayed in the mourning scene of which he had been a hidden witness,—markedthese symptoms of uneasiness with a delight past all expression, and derivedfrom them a secret joy which the costliest banquet could never have afforded him. It is worthy of remark too, as illustrating a little feature in the characterof Miss Sally Brass, that, although on her own account she would have bornethe discomforts of the Wilderness with a very ill grace, and would probably,indeed, have walked off before the tea appeared, she no sooner beheld thelatent uneasiness and misery of her brother than she developed a grim satis-faction, and began to enjoy herself after her own manner. Though the wetcame stealing through the roof and trickling down upon their heads. Miss
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Brass uttered no complaint, but presided over the tea equipage with imper-tui-bable composure. While Mr. Quilp, in his uproarious hospitality, seated MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK. 83 himself upon an empty beer-barrel, vaunted the place as the most beautifuland comfortable in the three kingdoms, and elevating his glass, drankto their next merry-meeting in that jovial spot; and Mr. Brass, with therain plashing down into his tea-cup, made a dismal attempt to pluck uphis spirits and appear at his ease ; and Tom Scott, who was in waiting atthe door under an old umbrella, exulted in his agonies and bade fair to splithis sides with laughing; while all this was passing, Miss Sally Brass, unmindfulof the wet which dripped down upon her own feminine person and fair apparel,sat placidly behind the tea-board, erect and grizzly, contemplating the unhap-piness of her brother with a mind at ease, and content, in her amiable disregardof self, to sit there all night, witnessing the torments which his avaric

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