. Bleak house . ction, also that Jo should, amongmany other remarkable figures of speech, describe LadyDedlock as she who said she was a servant, though withmanners not conform ; but the conclusion of the play, inwhich Lady Dedlock (out of her mind) is escorted back toChesney Wold by Jo, and has a regular, conventional, knock-about, stage death-scene, while Jo — who, like Tiny Tim,does not die — weeps by her side, to form a picture, is alittle too much. Mr. Palgrave Simpson proved himself onso many other occasions so adroit a hand at dramatic cook-ery, that it is surprising that he should have
. Bleak house . ction, also that Jo should, amongmany other remarkable figures of speech, describe LadyDedlock as she who said she was a servant, though withmanners not conform ; but the conclusion of the play, inwhich Lady Dedlock (out of her mind) is escorted back toChesney Wold by Jo, and has a regular, conventional, knock-about, stage death-scene, while Jo — who, like Tiny Tim,does not die — weeps by her side, to form a picture, is alittle too much. Mr. Palgrave Simpson proved himself onso many other occasions so adroit a hand at dramatic cook-ery, that it is surprising that he should have concocted sucha hash as this, while it is still more astonishing that any-body should have thought it worth serving up to the public. CHARLES DICKENS THE YOUNGER. FACSIMILE OF THE TITLE-PAGE TO THE FIRST EDITION, BLEAK HOUSE. CHARLES DICKENS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. K. BROWNE. LONDON: BRADBUEY AND EVANS, 11, BOUVEBIE STREET. 1853. FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL WRAPPER TO THE FIRST PART. No. 1. MARCH. Price LONDON : BRADBURY & EVANS, BOUVERIE STREET. AGENTS : J. MENZIES, EDINBURGH ; MURRAY AND. SON, GLASGOW ; J. MGLASHAN, DUBUII. @° NOTICE is hereby given that of BLEAK HOUSE reserves tohimself the right of Duhlishing a Translation in France. BLEAK HOUSE. CHAPTER I. IN CHANCERY. London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chan-cellor sitting in Lincolns Inn Hall. Implacable November much mild in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retiredfrom the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meeta Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantinelizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots,making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes —• gone into mourning, one might imagine, forthe death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses,scarcely better ; splashed to their veiy blinkers. Foot j^assengers,jostling one anothers umbrellas, in a general i
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