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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...hop by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsy... ...Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...weeps strug gling and splashing in the water looked like some lum bering fish in pain. In some of the vessels at anchor all hands were busily engage... ...llection of The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 190 peg tops, balls, kites, fishing lines, marbles, half eaten apples, and other confiscated property o... ...the shipwrecked mariner, who, tost to and fro upon the billows of a mighty ocean, his red eyes blinded by looking on the water which hems him in on ev... ...template the work of ages that have become but drops of water in the great ocean of eternity. The old man had followed them, but they were all three h... ...eported it, you’d have held this to be impossible likewise, eh?’ With such pacific and bantering remarks did Mr Brass refute the foul aspersion on his...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, ...

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