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Updated: June 27, 2025

'I would rather have approached my respected father by candlelight, as a theme requiring a little artificial brilliancy; but we will take him by twilight, enlivened with a glow of Wallsend. He stirred the fire again as he spoke, and having made it blaze, resumed. 'My respected father has found, down in the parental neighbourhood, a wife for his not-generally-respected son.

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend