[Great Expectations by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookGreat Expectations ChapterXXVII
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And Biddy, she's ever right and ready.
And all friends is no backerder, if not no forarder.
'Ceptin Wopsle; he's had a drop." All this time (still with both hands taking great care of the bird's-nest), Joe was rolling his eyes round and round the room, and round and round the flowered pattern of my dressing-gown. "Had a drop, Joe ?" "Why yes," said Joe, lowering his voice, "he's left the Church and went into the playacting.
Which the playacting have likeways brought him to London along with me.
And his wish were," said Joe, getting the bird's-nest under his left arm for the moment, and groping in it for an egg with his right; "if no offence, as I would 'and you that." I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles." "Were you at his performance, Joe ?" I inquired. "I were," said Joe, with emphasis and solemnity. "Was there a great sensation ?" "Why," said Joe, "yes, there certainly were a peck of orange-peel. Partickler when he see the ghost.
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