{"product_id":"short-stories-volume-ix-mrs-lirripers-legacy-mrs-lirripers-lodgings-mugby-junction-von-charles-dickens","title":"Short Stories - Volume IX","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER I ¿ MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAh! 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. [...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lirriper's Lodgings***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER I ¿  HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhoever 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.[...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMugby Junction***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter I--Barbox Brothers***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Guard! What place is this?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mugby Junction, sir.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A windy place!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yes, it mostly is, sir.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"And looks comfortless indeed!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yes, it generally does, sir.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Is it a rainy night still?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pours, sir.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Open the door. I'll get out.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You'll have, sir,\" said the guard, glistening with drops of wet, and looking at the tearful face of his watch by the light of his lantern as the traveller descended, \"three minutes here.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"More, I think.--For I am not going on.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Thought you had a through ticket, sir?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"So I have, but I shall sacrifice the rest of it. I want my luggage.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640246908\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640246908","offer_id":39429254873181,"sku":"9783640246908","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/180e039e-895b-4182-8fdf-3dffde0c1557.jpg?v=1777613405","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/short-stories-volume-ix-mrs-lirripers-legacy-mrs-lirripers-lodgings-mugby-junction-von-charles-dickens","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}