The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1922-01-20
CONDENSED
CLASSICS
BLEAK HOUSE
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~ CHARLES DICKENS
~ CHARLES DICKENS
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knSwssage OF those only who IN right
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Tsss Inscription npon she stone fss
Charles DinaSens. ksora February the
1870.
Near hfm asea David Garrick, ana
facfng she grave ana on ftm left aud
fsEhf are monuDaents 81 CHANGER,
shakespease and Dryaan.
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trance Of nay eountry on may published
works." a@ o reason vvhy ha desired
40 iaHdntary Inscription over his grave.
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~WSHE celebrated case OF Jarn-
dyce and Jarndyce had droned
It's way through the dusty. mus
~ chancery court La London for how
many years only few bewigged and
fuzzy barrfstera knew. before /. Esther
summeraon, came to feel something
Of Its deadenIng touch. This scare.
crow OF a suit had become so com
plicated that no man alive knew what
IL meant. IN was once about an old
Jarndyce win. but was now only q
question Of costs and they were eating
I'D the original property every day
People were dragged Into It whether
they would or no. More than one trng.
edy II had occasioned. was told that
Tom Jarndyce. d cespairing sutton, had
said one day OF ehancery: tits be
Ing roasted at "A allow Gre: It's beina
stagAg TO death by single bees: it's be.
Ing drowned by drops; it's going mad
BY grains And then he went and
shot himself. But chancery brought
me many strange experiences. some
bitter sorrows and o great happiness
My childhood knew no mother. MY
earliest recollection was OF a kindly
woman who called herself my god,
mother. Once I had asked her about
my real mother, and she had replied
your mother, Esther, In your dis,
grace. ana you were hers" When
my godmother died was told by
ISenge and Carboy. great London law.
ysrs. that a guardian had been APP
pointed fer me and that bis name was
John Jarndyce; that he had been
asked to receive into his home a
syard Of the chancary court, younp
lady, and that was to be her com
tsani0n and was to go 10 Bleak House
down n Hertfortishire, to live. Then
first met my beautiful darling. Ada
Glare, and her handsome distant
cousin, Richard Carstone talso ward
In the terrible chancery1. q gay, I'M
stable bog whose love ADA Soon re
E,lined aiasfcr IN the end they were
narrfed and Richard, chasing the win
D. the wfsp of Jarridyce and Jarndyce
passed out or the Worfu Forever.
Through my guardian. kindly
hearty gentleman nearer sixty than
fifty. perhaps, met many people OF
low and high degree. OF the latter
wore Sir Leicester DedIock, and my
Lady Dedleck. great personages In
rank and fashion, with fine town.
hpuse In London and superb country
estate. Chesney VOID. off IN Lincoln,
shire. Sir Leicester had married foi
love. rumor had II. bit beneath
him. But my lady showed no signs
Of that. She was proud cold, naughty
they said. with beauty still not yet IN
It's autumn. Sir Leicester. twenty
years older. was man of worthy pres
ence, ceremonious and stately. al
had supreme faith In two things: tn
British aristocracy and Lady Dedlock
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