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Authors: Charles Dickens,Matthew Pearl

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  The service comes to an end, and the
servitors disperse to breakfast. Mr. Datchery accosts his last new acquaintance
outside, when the Choir (as much in a hurry to get their bedgowns off, as they
were but now to get them on) have scuffled away.

 

  “Well, mistress. Good morning. You have
seen him?”

 

  “I'VE seen him, deary; I'VE seen him!”

 

  “And you know him?”

 

  “Know him! Better far than all the Reverend
Parsons put together know him.”

 

  Mrs. Tope's care has spread a very neat,
clean breakfast ready for her lodger. Before sitting down to it, he opens his
cornercupboard door; takes his bit of chalk from its shelf; adds one thick line
to the score, extending from the top of the cupboard door to the bottom; and
then falls to with an appetite.

 

   

 

  […]

 

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