Short Stories - Volume IX

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature language: English abstract: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy***CHAPTER I - MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON AND WENT OVER***Ah! It's pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do not think they fully understand their trade and never did else why the sameness and why not more conveniences and fewer draughts and likewise making a practice of laying the plaster on too thick I am well convinced which holds the damp and as to chimney-pots putting them on by guess-work like hats at a party and no more knowing what their effect will be upon the smoke bless you than I do if so much except that it will mostly be either to send it down your throat in a straight form or give it a twist before it goes there. [...]***Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings***CHAPTER I - HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS***Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me my dear; excuse the familiarity but it comes natural to me in my own little room when wishing to open my mind to those that I can trust and I should be truly thankful if they were all mankind but such is not so for have but a Furnished bill in the window and your watch on the mantelpiece and farewell to it if you turn your back for but a second however gentlemanly the manners; nor is being of your own sex any safeguard as I have reason in the form of sugar-tongs to know for that lady (and a fine woman she was) got me to run for a glass of water on the plea of going to be confined which certainly turned out true but it was in the Station-house.[...]***Mugby Junction***Chapter I--Barbox Brothers***Guard! What place is this?Mugby Junction sir