“ when a man finds so fair a garden rooted up by pigs; he finds it hard indeed, without going high, to work it into money. ”
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1865). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
|---|---|
| Source | Our Mutual Friend |
| Topic | money work |
| Date | 1865 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/883/883-h/883-h.htm |
Context
“The Golden Dustman seeming to be engaged in some abstruse calculation, Mr Wegg assisted him with the following additional items.
‘There was, further, Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker. Ah! When a man thinks of the loss of such patronage as that; when a man finds so fair a garden rooted up by pigs; he finds it hard indeed, without going high, to work it into money. But I leave it wholly to you, sir.’
Mr Sloppy still continued his singular, and on the surface his incomprehensible, movement.
‘Leading on has been mentioned,’ said Wegg with a melancholy air, ‘and it’s not easy to say how far the tone of my mind may have been lowered by unwholesome reading on the subject of Misers, when you was leading me and others on to think you one yourself, sir.”
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