Charles Dickens: Master Humphrey’s Clock
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Closing Notes
TO THE READERS OF “MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK” Dear Friends, Next November we shall have finished the tale of which we are at present engaged, and shall have travelled together through twenty monthly parts and eighty-seven weekly numbers. It is my design when we have gone so far, to close this work. Let me tell you
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Chapter VI
CHAPTER VI MASTER HUMPHREY, FROM HIS CLOCK-SIDE IN THE CHIMNEY CORNER Two or three evenings after the institution of Mr. Weller’s Watch, I thought I heard, as I walked in the garden, the voice of Mr. Weller himself at no great distance; and stopping once or twice to listen more attentively, I found that the sounds
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Chapter V
CHAPTER V MR. WELLER’S WATCH It seems that the housekeeper and the two Mr. Wellers were no sooner left together on the occasion of their first becoming acquainted, than the housekeeper called to her assistance Mr. Slithers the barber, who had been lurking in the kitchen in expectation of her summons; and with many smiles and
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Chapter IV
CHAPTER IV THE CLOCK As we were going up-stairs, Mr. Pickwick put on his spectacles, which he had held in his hand hitherto; arranged his neckerchief, smoothed down his waistcoat, and made many other little preparations of that kind which men are accustomed to be mindful of, when they are going among strangers for the first
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Chapter III
CHAPTER III MASTER HUMPHREY’S VISITOR When I am in a thoughtful mood, I often succeed in diverting the current of some mournful reflections, by conjuring up a number of fanciful associations with the objects that surround me, and dwelling upon the scenes and characters they suggest. I have been led by this habit to assign to
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Chapter II
MASTER HUMPHREY, FROM HIS CLOCK-SIDE IN THE CHIMNEY-CORNER My old companion tells me it is midnight. The fire glows brightly, crackling with a sharp and cheerful sound, as if it loved to burn. The merry cricket on the hearth (my constant visitor), this ruddy blaze, my clock, and I, seem to share the world among us,
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Chapter I
CHAPTER I MASTER HUMPHREY, FROM HIS CLOCK-SIDE IN THE CHIMNEY CORNER The reader must not expect to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my readers with me, as I hope to do, and there should
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: PREFACES
PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME When the Author commenced this Work, he proposed to himself three objects— First. To establish a periodical, which should enable him to present, under one general head, and not as separate and distinct publications, certain fictions that he had it in contemplation to write. Secondly. To produce these Tales in weekly
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Master Humphrey’s Clock: Cover
DEDICATION OF“MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK” TOSAMUEL ROGERS, ESQUIRE. My Dear Sir, Let me have my Pleasures of Memory in connection with this book, by dedicating it to a Poet whose writings (as all the world knows) are replete with generous and earnest feeling; and to a man whose daily life (as all the world does not know) is one