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Dombey and Son

CHAPTER 17
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'Right again! you had.

Now I've took the liberty of coming here-- 'Won't you sit down ?' said Mr Carker, smiling.
'Thank'ee,' returned the Captain, availing himself of the offer.

'A man does get more way upon himself, perhaps, in his conversation, when he sits down.

Won't you take a cheer yourself ?' 'No thank you,' said the Manager, standing, perhaps from the force of winter habit, with his back against the chimney-piece, and looking down upon the Captain with an eye in every tooth and gum.

'You have taken the liberty, you were going to say--though it's none--' 'Thank'ee kindly, my lad,' returned the Captain: 'of coming here, on account of my friend Wal'r.


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