I am one by myself, one, said Mortimer, high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground, and what he will turn out when arrived at maturity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook's nest, he is always plotting wisdom, or plotting murder whether he will grow up, after so much solitary brooding, to enlighten his fellow-creatures, or to poison them is the only speck of interest that presents itself to my professional view.
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Hed be sharper than a serpents tooth, if he wasnt as dull as ditch water. Fanny Cleaver.
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