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Bleak House

CHAPTER XI
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But nobody can tell.

He was very poor, I suppose ?" "I suppose he was.

His room--don't look rich," says Krook, who might have changed eyes with his cat, as he casts his sharp glance around.
"But I have never been in it since he had it, and he was too close to name his circumstances to me." "Did he owe you any rent ?" "Six weeks." "He will never pay it!" says the young man, resuming his examination.
"It is beyond a doubt that he is indeed as dead as Pharaoh; and to judge from his appearance and condition, I should think it a happy release.

Yet he must have been a good figure when a youth, and I dare say, good-looking." He says this, not unfeelingly, while sitting on the bedstead's edge with his face towards that other face and his hand upon the region of the heart.

"I recollect once thinking there was something in his manner, uncouth as it was, that denoted a fall in life.


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