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Updated: May 16, 2025
'It's forty-four year, said Tim, making a calculation in the air with his pen, and drawing an imaginary line before he cast it up, 'forty-four year, next May, since I first kept the books of Cheeryble, Brothers. I've never slept out of the back-attic one single night.
'Not the back-attic can't! cried Tugby, coming out into the shop to join the conference. 'The back-attic, Mr. Tugby, said the gentleman, 'is coming down- stairs fast, and will be below the basement very soon. Looking by turns at Tugby and his wife, he sounded the barrel with his knuckles for the depth of beer, and having found it, played a tune upon the empty part. 'The back-attic, Mr.
'Pooh! pooh! said Tim Linkinwater, 'don't tell me. What can you get in the country but new-laid eggs and flowers? I can buy new-laid eggs in Leadenhall Market, any morning before breakfast; and as to flowers, it's worth a run upstairs to smell my mignonette, or to see the double wallflower in the back-attic window, at No. 6, in the court.
A back-attic was found for me at the house of an insolvent court agent, who lived in Lant Street in the Borough, where Bob Sawyer lodged many years afterward. A bed and bedding were sent over for me, and made up on the floor. The little window had a pleasant prospect of a timber-yard; and when I took possession of my new abode, I thought it was a paradise.
Even that room in the prison, however, was more cheerful than the small back-attic chamber where the boy fell asleep for the second time that night. He slept on a bed made up on the floor, but his slumber was no less deep on that account. The noise of workmen in a timber yard under his window woke Charles when it seemed much too dark to be morning.
Nine-tenths of her news so vital, so epoch-making over there loses its significance, and the rest is as the scuffling of ghosts in a back-attic. Here in Yokohama the Overseas Club has two mails and four sets of papers English, French, German, and American, as suits the variety of its constitution and the verandah by the sea, where the big telescope stands, is a perpetual feast of the Pentecost.
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