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A House to Let
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Title: A House to Let
Author: Charles Dickens
Release Date: May 10, 2005 [eBook #2324]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1903 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk. Proofed by David, Edgar Howard, Dawn Smith, Terry Jeffress and Jane Foster.
A HOUSE TO LET (FULL TEXT) by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Ann Procter
Contents:
Over the Way The Manchester Marriage Going into Society Three Evenings in the House Trottle's Report Let at Last
OVER THE WAY
I had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for ten years, when my medical man--very clever in his profession, and the prettiest player I ever saw in my life of a hand at Long Whist, which was a noble and a princely game before Short was heard of--said to me, one day, as he sat feeling my pulse on the actual sofa which my poor dear sister Jane worked before her spine came on, and laid her on a board for fifteen months at a stretch--the most upright woman that ever lived--said to me, "What we want, ma'am, is a fillip."
"Good gracious, goodness gracious, Doctor Towers!" says I, quite startled at the man, for he was so christened himself: "don't talk as if you were alluding to people's names; but say what you mean."
"I mean, my dear ma'am, that we wa