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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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to him for ever, to playing the flute ; thinkingafter mature consideration that it was a good, sound, dismal occupation, notonly in unison with his own sad thoughts, but calculated to awaken a fellow-feeling in the bosoms of his neighbours. In pursuance of this resolution, henow drew a little table to his bedside, and arranging the light and a smalloblong music-book to the best advantage, took his flute from its box, and beganto play most mournfully. The air was Away with melancholy —a composition, which, when it isplayed very slowly on the flute in bed, with the further disadvantage of beingperformed by a gentleman but imperfectly acquainted with the instrument,who repeats one note a great many times before he can find the next, has nota lively effect. Yet for half the night, or more, Mr. Swiveller, lying sometimeson his back with his eyes upon the ceiling, and sometimes half out of bed tocorrect himself by the book, played this unhappy tune over and over again ; •N$^^<.^.---
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never leaving off, save for a minute or two at a time to take breath and solilo-quize about the Marchioness, and thenbeginning again with renewed vigour.It was not until he had quite exhausted his several subjects of meditation, andhad breathed into the flute the whole sentiment of the purl down to its verydregs, and had nearly maddened the people of the house, and at both the nextdoors, and over the way,—that he shut up the iftusic-book, extinguished thecandle, and finding himself greatly lightened and relieved in his mind, turnedround and fell asleep. MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK. 125 He awoke in the morning, much refreshed ; and having taken half an hoursexercise at the flute, and graciously received a notice to quit from his landlady,who had been in waiting on the stairs for that purpose since the dawn of day,repaired to Bevis Marks; where the beautiful Sally was already at her post,bearing in her looks a radiance mild as that which beameth from the virginmoon. Mr. Swiveller acknowled

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