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... well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one by one....

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...Excerpt: The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparatory Establishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before book--was a miserable loft in an unsavoury yard. Its atmos...

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...OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens Volume Two BOOK THE SECOND BIRDS OF A FEATHER A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual F... ...ics Series Publication Our Mutual Friend Volume Two by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...TIONAL CHARACTER THE SCHOOL AT WHICH young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book—the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparat... ... had written their own biographies in the same strain; it always appearing from the lessons of those very boast- ful persons, that you were to do good... ...ou want to go and see your sister, Hexam?’ ‘If you please, Mr Headstone.’ ‘I have half a mind to go with you. Where does your sister live?’ ‘Why, she ... ... Where does your sister live?’ ‘Why, she is not settled yet, Mr Headstone. I’d rather you didn’t see her till she is settled, if it was all the same t... ...er head. ‘No. Poorly paid. And I’m often so pressed for time! I had a doll married, last week, and was obliged to work all night. And it’s not good fo... ...at a thing it would be, if I should be able to have your company till I am married, or at least courted. Because when I am courted, I shall make Him d... ... it,’ returns Lightwood, ‘per- 201 Charles Dickens haps you’ll tell us.’ ‘Monster, away!’ retorts Lady Tippins. ‘Your own Golden Dustman referred me ...