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Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit

CHAPTER THREE
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Brother against brother, child against parent, friends treading on the faces of friends, this is the social company by whom my way has been attended.

There are stories told--they may be true or false--of rich men who, in the garb of poverty, have found out virtue and rewarded it.

They were dolts and idiots for their pains.

They should have made the search in their own characters.

They should have shown themselves fit objects to be robbed and preyed upon and plotted against and adulated by any knaves, who, but for joy, would have spat upon their coffins when they died their dupes; and then their search would have ended as mine has done, and they would be what I am.' Mr Pecksniff, not at all knowing what it might be best to say in the momentary pause which ensued upon these remarks, made an elaborate demonstration of intending to deliver something very oracular indeed; trusting to the certainty of the old man interrupting him, before he should utter a word.


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