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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et, is all that represents him. HeljD, help, help ! come into this house for Heavens sake ! Plenty will come in, but none can help. The Lord Chancellorof that Court, true to his title in his last act, has died the deathof all Lord Chancellors in all Courts, and of all authorities in allplaces under all names soever, where false pretences are made, andwhere injustice is done. Call the death by any name Your High-ness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have beenprevented how you will, it is the same death eternally — inborn,inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious bodyitself, and that only — Spontaneous Combustion, and none otherof all the deaths that can be died. CHAPTER XXXIII. INTERLOPERS. Now do those two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs andbuttons who attended the last Coroners Inquest at the Sols Arms,reappear in the precincts with surprising swiftness (being, in fact,breathlessly fetched by the active and intelligent beadle), and in-
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THE APPOINTED TIME. 424 BLEAK HOUSE. stitute perquisitions through the court, and. dive into the Solsparlour, and write with ravenous little pens on tissue-paper. Nowdo they note down, in the watches of the night, how the neighbour-hood of Chanceiy Lane was yesterday, at about midnight, throwninto a state of the most intense agitation and excitement by thefollowing alarming and horrible discovery. Now do they set forthhow it will doubtless be remembered, that some time back a pain-ful sensation was created in the public mind, by a case of myste-rious death from opium occurring in the first floor of the houseoccupied as a rag, bottle, and general marine store shop, by aneccentric individual of intemperate habits, far advanced in life,named Krook ; and how, by a remarkable coincidence, Krook wasexamined at the Inquest, which it may be recollected was held onthat occasion at the Sols Arms, a well-conducted tavern, immedi-ately adjoining the premises in question, on the west side, andlice

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