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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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that—out ofyour anxiety for my death. I shall come home when I please, 1 tell you. Ishall come home when I please, and go when I please. FlI be a Will o theWisp, now here, now there, dancing about you always, starting up when youleast expect me, and keeping you in a constant state of restlessness and irrita-tion. Will you begone ? MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK. 79 Mrs. Quilp durst only make a gesture of entreaty. I tell you no, cried the dwarf. No. If you dare to come here againunless youre sent for, Ill keep watch-dogs in the yard thatll growl and bite—Ill have man-traps, cunningly altered and improved for catching women—Ill have spring guns, that shall explode when you tread upon the wires, andblow you into little pieces. Will you begone V Do forgive me. Do come back, said his wife, earnestly. No-o-o-o-o ! roared Quilp. Not till my own good time, and then Fllreturn again as often as I choose, and be accountable to nobody for my goingsor comings. You see the door there. Will you go l
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Mr. Quilp delivered tliis last command in such a very energetic voice, andmoreover accompanied it with such a sudden gesture, indicative of an inten-tion to spring out of his hammock, and, night-capped as he was, bear his wifehome again through the public streets, that she sped away like an arrow.Her worthy lord stretched his neck and eyes until she had crossed the yard,and then, not at all sorry to have had this opportunity of carrying his point,and asserting the sanctity of his castle, fell into an immoderate fit of laughter,and laid himself down to sleep again. 80 Master Humphreys clock. CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FIRST. The bland and open-hearted proprietor of Bachelors Hall, slept on amidstthe congenial accompaniments of rain, mud, dirt, damp, fog, and rats, untillate in the day; when, summoning his valet Tom Scott to assist him to rise,and to prepare breakfast, he quitted his couch, and made his toilet. This dutyperformed, and his repast ended, he again betook himself to Bevis Marks. Thi

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