Our mutual friend . ,1J OUR MUTUAL FRIEND BY CHARLES DICKENS NEW YORK:PUBLISHED BY JOHN BRADBURN, (successor to m. doolady,) 49 WALKER-STREET. 1864. V2 3 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. IN FOUR BOOKS. BOOK THE FIRST THE CUP AND THE LIP. CHAPTER I. ON THE LOOK-OUT. In these times of ours, though concerning the exactyear there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty anddisreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floatedon the Thames, between Southwark bridge which isof iron, and London bridge which is of stone, as anautumn evening was closing in. The figures in this boat were those of a strong manwith
Our mutual friend . ,1J OUR MUTUAL FRIEND BY CHARLES DICKENS NEW YORK:PUBLISHED BY JOHN BRADBURN, (successor to m. doolady,) 49 WALKER-STREET. 1864. V2 3 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. IN FOUR BOOKS. BOOK THE FIRST THE CUP AND THE LIP. CHAPTER I. ON THE LOOK-OUT. In these times of ours, though concerning the exactyear there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty anddisreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floatedon the Thames, between Southwark bridge which isof iron, and London bridge which is of stone, as anautumn evening was closing in. The figures in this boat were those of a strong manwith ragged grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, anda dark girl of nineteen or twenty, sufficiently like himto be recognizable as his daughter. The girl rowed,pulling a pair of sculls very easily; the man, with therudder-lines slack in his hands, and his hands loose inhis waistband, kept an eager look-out. He had nonet, hook, or line, and he could not be a fisherman;his boat had no cushion for a sitter, no paint, noinsourmutualfriend01dick
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