Identifier: bleakhouse00dick (find matches)
Title: Bleak house
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896, ed Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, illus
Subjects: Young women Guardian and ward Illegitimate children Inheritance and succession
Publisher: New York, London, Macmillan and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Not much time for it I should say? Besides which. Mercury dont like it. Prefers carriage exercise. To be sure, says Mr. Bucket. That makes a difference.Now I think of it, says Mr. Bucket, warming his hands, and look-ing pleasantly at the blaze, she went out walking, the very nightof this business. To be sure she did ! I let her into the garden over the way.• And left her there. Certainly you did. I saw-you doing it. I didnt see i/ou, says Mercury. I was rather in a hurry, returns Mr. Bucket, for I was goingto visit a aunt of mine that lives at Chelsea — next door but twoto the old original Bun House — ninety year old the old lady is, asingle woman, and got a little property. Yes, I chanced to bepassing at the time. Lets see. What time might it be? Itwasnt ten. Half-past nine. Youre right. So it was. And if I dont deceive myself, myLady was muffled in a loose black mantle, with a deep fringe to it ? Of course she was. Of course she was. Mr. Bucket must return to a little work he
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SHADOW. BLEAK HOUSE. 671 has to get on with up-stairs; but he must shake hands with Mer-cury in acknowledgment of his agreeable conversation, and willhe — this is all he asks — will he, when he has a leisure half-hour,think of bestowing it on that Royal Academy sculptor, for theadvantage of both parties ? CHAPTER LIV. SPRINGING A MINE. Refreshed by sleep, Mr. Bucket rises betimes in the morning,and prepares for a field-day. Smartened up by the aid of a cleanshirt and a wet hair-brush, with which instrument, on occasions ofceremony, he lubricates such thin locks as remain to him after hislife of severe study, Mr. Bucket lays in a breakfast of two muttonchops as a foundation to work upon, together with tea, eggs, toast,and marmalade, on a corresponding scale. Having much enjoyedthese strengthening matters, and having held subtle conference withhis familiar demon, he confidentially instructs Mercury just tomention quietly to Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, that wheneverhes ready for

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