I found myself perpetually letting out something or other that I had no business to let out and seeing the effect of it in the twinkling of Uriah’s dinted nostrils.
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The ball itself was always changing too.
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When there was nothing more to be got out of me about myself (for on the Murdstone and Grinby life, and on my journey, I was dumb), they began about Mr. Wickfield and Agnes.
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I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.
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and then I began to tell her about mine—but stopped, because my aunt had advised me to observe a silence on that subject.
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‘I am sure you have no occasion to be so, ma’am,’ I said, ‘unless you like.’
‘Thank you, sir,’ retorted Mrs. Heep. ‘We know our station and are thankful in it.’
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‘If I could have wished father to remain among us for any reason,’ said Mrs. Heep, ‘it would have been, that he might have known his company this afternoon.’
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they had their natural affections, which they hoped would give no offence to anyone. It was a perfectly decent room, half parlour and half kitchen, but not at all a snug room.
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I think there was some compromise in the cap; but otherwise she was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
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there was a corner cupboard: and there were the usual articles of furniture. I don’t remember that any individual object had a bare, pinched, spare look; but I do remember that the whole place had.
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