Identifier: ourmutualfriend01dick (find matches)
Title: Our mutual friend
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Subjects: Inheritance and succession Social classes Poor families Deception
Publisher: New York : J. Bradburn, 1864-65
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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or when—I dont know what—I may turn him to wishto do better things. You said you couldnt read a book, Lizzie. Yourlibrary of books is the hollow down by the flare, Ithink. I should be very glad to be able to read real books.I feel my want of learning very much, Charley. ButI should feel it much more, if I didnt know it to be atie between me and father.—Hark! Fathers tread! It being now past midnight, the bird of prey wentstraight to roost. At mid-day following he reappear-ed at the Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters, in the charac-ter, not new to him, of a witness before a CoronersJury. Mr. Mortimer Lightwood, besides sustaining thecharacter of one of the witnesses, doubled the partwith that of the eminent solicitor who watched theproceedings on behalf of the representatives of the de-ceased, as was duly recorded in the newspapers. Mr.Inspector watched the proceedings too, and kept hiswatching closely to himself. Mr. Julius Handfordhaving given his right address, and being reported in
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fTe^ OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 49 solvent circumstances as to his bill, though nothingmore was known oi him at his hotel except that hisway of life was very retired, had no summons to ap-pear, and was merely present in the shades of Mr. In-spectors mind. The case was made interesting to the public by Mr.Mortimer Lightwood giving evidence touching thecircumstances under which the deceased, Mr. JohnHarmon, had returned to England ; exclusive privateproprietorship in which circumstances was set up atdinner-tables for several days, by Veneering, Twem-low, Podsnap, and all the Buffers: who all relatedthem irreconcilably with one another, and contradictedthemselves. It was also made interesting by the tes-timony of Job Potterson, the ships steward, and oneMr. Jacob Kibble, a fellow-passenger, that the deceas-ed Mr. John Harmon did bring over, in a hand-valisewith which he did disembark, the sum he had realizedby the forced sale of his little landed property, andthat the sum exceeded, in ready mone

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