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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Your salary is quadrupled. What do you think of the Old Curiosity Shop?" The man instantly burst into a torrent of tears, and then into a roar of laughter. "Enough! Here are five thousand pounds. Open a porter-house, and call it, 'Our Mutual Friend. Huzza! I feel so happy!" And the haunted Man danced about the room.
Shame may cause that sudden dilation of the capillary blood-vessels of the face known as "blushing." The sight of others laughing or yawning makes us laugh or yawn. The sound of one man coughing will become epidemic in an audience. The thought of a sizzling porter-house steak with mushrooms, baked potatoes and rich gravy makes the mouth of a hungry man "water."
First the books, then a package of tobacco, then the one shirt, porcelain-finished collars, and the other necessaries, including a pair of slippers and a comb. Next, three bundles loosely wrapped, one containing two wax dolls, the others some small toys, and a cheap Noah's ark, and last of all, wrapped up in coarse, yellow butcher's paper, stained and moist, a freshly cut porter-house steak.
Well, it will make Connie laugh like anything!" he said. To be a habitue of Brown's was to prove yourself a person of some means and solid discrimination. At Brown's you could get cuts from the joint, a porter-house steak, apple tart, and a good boiled pudding as nowhere else in the world.
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