Charles Dickens

Name: The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42
Author: Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

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“The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42”, published in 1841, is a work by Charles Dickens. It explores elements such as Isaac List, Jowl and wanderings.

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Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

“ Isaac List, with great apparent humility, protested that he had never doubted the credit of a gentleman so notorious for his honourable dealing as Mr Jowl, and that he had hinted at the production of the box, not for the satisfaction of his doubts, for he could have none, but with a view to being regaled with a sight of so much wealth, which, though it might be deemed by some but an unsubstantial and visionary pleasure, was to one in his circumstances a source of extreme delight, only to be surpassed by its safe depository in his own personal pockets. ”

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Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

“ No, to-morrow night.'
'Then to-morrow be it,' said Jowl. 'A drop of comfort here. Luck to the best man! Fill!' The gipsy produced three tin cups, and filled them to the brim with brandy. The old man turned aside and muttered to himself before he drank. Her own name struck upon the listener's ear, coupled with some wish so fervent, that he seemed to breathe it in an agony of supplication. ”

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Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

“ There--go on with what you were saying--go on.'
'I'm a jolly old tender-hearted lamb, I am,' cried Mr Jowl, 'to be sitting here at my time of life giving advice when I know it won't be taken, and that I shall get nothing but abuse for my pains. But that's the way I've gone through life. Experience has never put a chill upon my warm-heartedness.'
'I tell you he's very sorry, don't I?' remonstrated Isaac List, 'and that he wishes you'd go on.'
'Does he wish it?' said the other.
'Ay,' groaned the old man sitting down, and rocking himself to and fro. 'Go on, go on. It's in vain to fight with it ”

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Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

“ She raised her eyes to the bright stars, looking down so mildly from the wide worlds of air, and, gazing on them, found new stars burst upon her view, and more beyond, and more beyond again, until the whole great expanse sparkled with shining spheres, rising higher and higher in immeasurable space, eternal in their numbers as in their changeless and incorruptible existence. ”

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Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

“ Borrow it, I say, and, when you're able, pay it back again.'
'Certainly,' Isaac List struck in, 'if this good lady as keeps the wax-works has money, and does keep it in a tin box when she goes to bed, and doesn't lock her door for fear of fire, it seems a easy thing; quite a Providence, I should call it--but then I've been religiously brought up.'
'You see, Isaac,' said his friend, growing more eager, and drawing himself closer to the old man, while he signed to the gipsy not to come between them; 'you see, Isaac, strangers are going in and out every hour of the day ”

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Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

“ The utter irresolution and feebleness of the grey-haired child, contrasted with the keen and cunning looks of those in whose hands he was, smote upon the little listener's heart. But she constrained herself to attend to all that passed, and to note each look and word.
'Confound you, what do you mean?' said the stout man rising a little, and supporting himself on his elbow. 'Keep you poor! You'd keep us poor if you could, wouldn't you? That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players. When you lose, you're martyrs ”

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Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

“ I act as a friend. Why should I help a man to the means perhaps of winning all I have, unless I considered him my friend? It's foolish, I dare say, to be so thoughtful of the welfare of other people, but that's my constitution, and I can't help it; so don't blame me, Isaac List.'
'I blame you!' returned the person addressed; 'not for the world, Mr Jowl. I wish I could afford to be as liberal as you ”

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Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop — Chapter 42 (1841)

“ Some vague apprehension succeeded, and, yielding to the strong inclination it awakened, she drew nearer to the place; not advancing across the open field, however, but creeping towards it by the hedge. ”

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