Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. Charles Dickens

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СКАЧАТЬ CHAPTER VI—THE BLACK VEIL

       CHAPTER VII—THE STEAM EXCURSION

       CHAPTER VIII—THE GREAT WINGLEBURY DUEL

       CHAPTER IX—MRS. JOSEPH PORTER

       CHAPTER X—A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF MR. WATKINS TOTTLE

       CHAPTER XI—THE BLOOMSBURY CHRISTENING

       CHAPTER XII—THE DRUNKARD’S DEATH

       SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN

       THE BASHFUL YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE OUT-AND-OUT YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE VERY FRIENDLY YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE MILITARY YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE POLITICAL YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE DOMESTIC YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE CENSORIOUS YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE FUNNY YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE THEATRICAL YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE POETICAL YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE ‘THROWING-OFF’ YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       THE YOUNG LADIES’ YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       CONCLUSION

       SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES

       AN URGENT REMONSTRANCE, &c.

       THE YOUNG COUPLE

       THE FORMAL COUPLE

       THE LOVING COUPLE

       THE CONTRADICTORY COUPLE

       THE COUPLE WHO DOTE UPON THEIR CHILDREN

       THE COOL COUPLE

       THE PLAUSIBLE COUPLE

       THE NICE LITTLE COUPLE

       THE EGOTISTICAL COUPLE

       THE COUPLE WHO CODDLE THEMSELVES

       THE OLD COUPLE

       CONCLUSION

       THE MUDFOG AND OTHER SKETCHES

       PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE—ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG

       FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION for the advancement of everything

       FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION for the advancement of everything

       THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE

       SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION

       MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ‘GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS’

       FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD aged two years and two months

CHAPTER I—THE STREETS—MORNING

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      The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

      The last drunken man, who shall find his way home before sunlight, has just СКАЧАТЬ