Identifier: ourmutualfriend00dick (find matches)
Title: Our mutual friend
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896, ed
Subjects: Inheritance and succession Social classes Poor families Deception
Publisher: New York, London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n Johns offering a suggestion which didntmeet his views, his face became overcast and reproachful, as enjoin-ing penance. What a dinner! Specimens of all the fishes that s^vim in thesea, surely had swum their way to it, and if samples of the fishesof divers colours that made a speech in the Arabian Nights (quite aministerial explanation in respect of cloudiness), and then jumpedout of the frying-pan, were not to be recognised, it was only becausethey had all become of one hue by being cooked in batter amongthe whitebait. And the dishes being seasoned with Bliss — anarticle which they are sometimes out of, at Greenwich — were ofperfect flavour, and the golden drinks had been bottled in thegolden age and hoarding up their sparkles ever since. The best of it was, that Bella and John and the cherub hadmade a covenant that they would not reveal to mortal eyes anyappearance whatever of being a wedding party. Now, the super-vising dignitary, the Archbishop of Greenwich, knew this as well
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2 T 642 OUK MUTUAL FRIEND. as if he had performed the nuptial ceremony. And the loftinesswith which his Grace entered into their confidence without beinginvited, and insisted on a show of keeping the waiters out of it,was the crownhig glory of the entertainment. There was an innocent young waiter of a slender form and withweakish legs, as yet unversed in the wiles of waiterliood, and buttoo evidently of a romantic temperament, and deeply (it were nottoo much to add hopelessly) in love with some young female notaware of his merit. This guileless youth, descrying the position ofaffairs, which even his innocence could not mistake, limited hiswaiting to languishing admiringly against the sideboard when Belladidnt want anything, and swooping at her when she did. Him, hisGrace the Archbishop perpetually obstructed, cutting him out withhis elbow in the moment of success, despatching him in degradingquest of melted butter, and, when by any chance he got hold ofany dish worth having, bereaving

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