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Bleak House

CHAPTER VI
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"But you answer like Ada." Whom I had not heard.

"You all think something else, I see." "We rather thought," said I, glancing at Richard and Ada, who entreated me with their eyes to speak, "that perhaps she was a little unmindful of her home." "Floored!" cried Mr.Jarndyce.
I was rather alarmed again.
"Well! I want to know your real thoughts, my dear.

I may have sent you there on purpose." "We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them." "The little Jellybys," said Richard, coming to my relief, "are really--I can't help expressing myself strongly, sir--in a devil of a state." "She means well," said Mr.Jarndyce hastily.

"The wind's in the east." "It was in the north, sir, as we came down," observed Richard.
"My dear Rick," said Mr.Jarndyce, poking the fire, "I'll take an oath it's either in the east or going to be.

I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east." "Rheumatism, sir ?" said Richard.
"I dare say it is, Rick.


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