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Short Stories - Volume IX: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction
Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy*** CHAPTER I - MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER*** Ah! It's pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do not think they fully understand their trade and never did, else why the sameness and why not more conveniences and fewer draughts and likewise making a practice of laying the plaster on too thick I am well convinced which holds the damp, and as to chimney-pots putting them on by guess-work like hats at a party and no more knowing what their effect will be upon the smoke bless you than I do if so much, except that it will mostly be either to send it down your throat in a straight form or give it a twist before it goes there. [...] *** Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings*** CHAPTER I - HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS*** Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when wishing to open my mind to those that I can trust, and I should be truly thankful if they were all mankind, but such is not so, for have but a Furnished bill in the window and your watch on the mantelpiece, and farewell to it if you turn your back for but a second, however gentlemanly the manners; nor is being of your own sex any safeguard, as I have reason, in the form of sugar-tongs to know, for that lady (and a fine woman she was) got me to run for a glass of water, on the plea of going to be confined, which certainly turned out true, but it was in the Station-house.[...] *** Mugby Junction*** Chapter I--Barbox Brothers*** "Guard! What place is this?" "Mugby Junction, sir." "A windy
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Short Stories - Volume IX: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction
Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy*** CHAPTER I - MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER*** Ah! It's pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do not think they fully understand their trade and never did, else why the sameness and why not more conveniences and fewer draughts and likewise making a practice of laying the plaster on too thick I am well convinced which holds the damp, and as to chimney-pots putting them on by guess-work like hats at a party and no more knowing what their effect will be upon the smoke bless you than I do if so much, except that it will mostly be either to send it down your throat in a straight form or give it a twist before it goes there. [...] *** Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings*** CHAPTER I - HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS*** Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when wishing to open my mind to those that I can trust, and I should be truly thankful if they were all mankind, but such is not so, for have but a Furnished bill in the window and your watch on the mantelpiece, and farewell to it if you turn your back for but a second, however gentlemanly the manners; nor is being of your own sex any safeguard, as I have reason, in the form of sugar-tongs to know, for that lady (and a fine woman she was) got me to run for a glass of water, on the plea of going to be confined, which certainly turned out true, but it was in the Station-house.[...] *** Mugby Junction*** Chapter I--Barbox Brothers*** "Guard! What place is this?" "Mugby Junction, sir." "A windy
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Short Stories - Volume IX: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction

Short Stories - Volume IX: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction

by Charles Dickens
Short Stories - Volume IX: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction

Short Stories - Volume IX: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction

by Charles Dickens

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Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy*** CHAPTER I - MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER*** Ah! It's pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do not think they fully understand their trade and never did, else why the sameness and why not more conveniences and fewer draughts and likewise making a practice of laying the plaster on too thick I am well convinced which holds the damp, and as to chimney-pots putting them on by guess-work like hats at a party and no more knowing what their effect will be upon the smoke bless you than I do if so much, except that it will mostly be either to send it down your throat in a straight form or give it a twist before it goes there. [...] *** Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings*** CHAPTER I - HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS*** Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when wishing to open my mind to those that I can trust, and I should be truly thankful if they were all mankind, but such is not so, for have but a Furnished bill in the window and your watch on the mantelpiece, and farewell to it if you turn your back for but a second, however gentlemanly the manners; nor is being of your own sex any safeguard, as I have reason, in the form of sugar-tongs to know, for that lady (and a fine woman she was) got me to run for a glass of water, on the plea of going to be confined, which certainly turned out true, but it was in the Station-house.[...] *** Mugby Junction*** Chapter I--Barbox Brothers*** "Guard! What place is this?" "Mugby Junction, sir." "A windy

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783640246908
Publisher: Grin Publishing
Publication date: 01/19/2009
Pages: 152
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is probably the greatest novelist England has ever produced, the author of such famous books as A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, and Oliver Twist. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life — along with his indelible characters — have made his books beloved by readers the world over. Dickens was born in Landport, Portsea, England and died in Kent after suffering a stroke. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know hunger, privation, and the horrors of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. These unfortunate early life experiences helped shape many of his greatest works.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington
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