Sketches by Boz (Penguin Classics)
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We commenced our last chapter with the beadle of our parish, because we are deeply sensible of the importance and dignity of his office. We will begin the present, with the clergyman. Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
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How much is conveyed in those two short words - 'The Parish!' And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future.
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Sketches by Boz (Penguin Classics)
Sketches by Boz (Penguin Classics),Charles Dickens,Dennis Walder,Penguin Classics,0140433457,19th century,Classics,Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870,Fiction,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,London (England),Social life and customs,19th century fiction,Classic fiction,Fiction / Literary
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