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David Copperfield

CHAPTER 30
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Bless you, it would be a shock that the generality of parties mightn't recover, to say "Omer and Joram's compliments, and how do you find yourself this morning ?"--or this afternoon--as it may be.' Mr.Omer and I nodded at each other, and Mr.Omer recruited his wind by the aid of his pipe.
'It's one of the things that cut the trade off from attentions they could often wish to show,' said Mr.Omer.

'Take myself.

If I have known Barkis a year, to move to as he went by, I have known him forty years.
But I can't go and say, "how is he ?"' I felt it was rather hard on Mr.Omer, and I told him so.
'I'm not more self-interested, I hope, than another man,' said Mr.Omer.
'Look at me! My wind may fail me at any moment, and it ain't likely that, to my own knowledge, I'd be self-interested under such circumstances.

I say it ain't likely, in a man who knows his wind will go, when it DOES go, as if a pair of bellows was cut open; and that man a grandfather,' said Mr.Omer.
I said, 'Not at all.' 'It ain't that I complain of my line of business,' said Mr.Omer.

'It ain't that.


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