Show att VW I 1 CONDENSED 1 t CLASSICS I 1 BLEAK HOUSE X 0 ak py by CHAR CHARLES LES DICKENS condensation by X f wilder dwight quint s dickens did not uve to be an old 14 inane maii as old nut age Is I 1 reckoned la in our liue when heu the end came on the eke ee ulnar of the ninth of june ISTO he hud hll lived only four death beyond ills hi jtb lmh fear the news new of him death was ira re as a a universal calamity through out fut the world the london londo at ilmet in that the only UI nt unc lung renting place for the remains of inch at a man was the abbey la in which the mom anent illustrious are laid aid decla declared reds i men bhea of science clence ct ence philan th ro plats the he acknowledged benefactors of their race might puts pur anay aud and fet vast lot lente leave the old which will 1 I il he be caused by the death of at dickens bowel er preeminent pre eminent la in station tnt lon a ability int ar r public services they will not huse haie abeels like our grent crent and genial novelist tb of ewery bounth boure hold old indeed uch such a position Is IM attained not net even by one man la in an nee age dickens had bad le left ft instruction that hr he be burled prisa privately tely without pr brelon elon public announcement of time or place pince fand without monument or me morini lie he had preferred to lie in fa the ninnel Irr aveyard under rochester Ko heer castle want or r la in the tbt ihde churches ehor cae of cobham or shomei but bat nil all theme theae were found foaad to be lonch the demand that he he be placed tincup Ellul ands great dead to la Inin ilir ster cr abbey united la in by all ung land frota from the dena dean of the abbey to the bunA blent citizen flanley prevailed it ft penn na arranged arra aired that there should bould be only such och ceremonial n as would rould be consistent coD leot aith ft ath the ID Junction for privacy and n the morning of the letb of at lane une all wax carried out alth avith the of those thoe only who by right alight at the burial the inscription upon the abe tone let j charac dickens Ulc keno norn dorn february the feve alb 1812 data alt june jane the ibe malli abath near him lie iles dald garrick and facing the he grave frae and on its it left ond and right are monuments monument of chaucer and dryden dickens last lait spoken words word were te yes on the ground in reply to ble hl later ln ld ina when he wan WAH mick at he laj ian she basing baloff exclaimed come nd lie down of his hi own life and work he once sold aid 1 I rot rest my claim to the be rebern aronce of my country on ray my published do a a reason reanon why be desired so ko laudatory inscription ozer over bl tits krae HE celebrated case of jarn THE T dyce and Jarn dyce had droned dronek its way through the dusty musty chancery cli ancery court in london fur for how adaily years only a few bewigged and fuzzy barristers bar knew before 1 I esther summerson came to feel something of t its deadening this scare of a suit had become so com that no roan man alive knew what it meant it was once about an old Jarn larri dyce will but was now only a question of costs and they were eating ap the original property every day people were dragged into it whether they would or no more than one trag edy dy it had bad occasioned I 1 was told that tom Jarn dyce a despairing suitor had bad said one day of 0 chancery its being roasted at a slow fire its being rung stung to death by single bees its being aroi drowned ned by drops its going mart mad by grains and then tie he went and shot hot himself but chancery brought me many strange experiences some bitter sorrows and a great happiness sly bly childhood knew no mother sly MF earliest arll earlI ept eFt recollection was as of a kandl kindly y noman who called herself my godmother once I 1 had asked her about my real mother and she had replied your mother esther Is your disgrace and you atre hers whan my godmother died I 1 was told by kinge and carboy great london lawyers that a guardian had been appointed for me and that his name wa john Jarn dyce that he had been asked to receive into his home a wa ward rd of 0 the chancery court a youns lady and that I 1 was to be her com coin leanion canlon and was to go gi to ideate bleak house down in Hertford shire to live then first I 1 met my beautiful darling ada clare and her handsome distant cousin richard Carit Car stone tone also h a ward to in the terrible chancery a gay unstable boy whose love ada soon returned alas for in the end they were married and rich richard ird cha chaing qung ing the he will ol 01 0 the wisp ot of Jarn dyce and Jarn dyce passed out of the world forever through my guardian a kindly hearty gentleman nearer sixty than fifty city perhaps I 1 met many people of low lind am high degree of the latter were sir leicester Ded deadlock lock and my lady Ded deblock lock great personages in rank and fashion with a fine town hou houie houe e in london and superb country estate chesney woid wod olt oft lu in lincoln sir leicester had married tor for love rumor had M it a bit beneath him dut but my lady showed no signs of that she was waa proud cold haughty hey eald with beauty still not yet in its autumn sir leicester twenty years older was a man of worthy presence ceremonious and stately he had bad supreme faith in two things the british aristocracy and lady Ded bedlock lock 0 my lady was in Jarn dyce and jarn jyce ace through some almost forgotten ancestor one afternoon in her london mansion mr hulking horn the family lawyer was with her in connection with the case mr hulking boro born I 1 came to know was a rusty client man the butler of the legal cellars of the deadlocks Ded locks grown rich out of aristocratic marriage settle belits and aristocratic wills an oyster of the oil 04 school whom nobody could open who copied that cried my lade iiii us suu she eau cai I 1 it b bott I 1 t 0 some mime handwriting on a legal before lier her wily why do you ila queried the keen lawyer struck by her animation and unusual tone anything to vary this detestable monotony site she returned then fainted with bir air to wonder at anything was vas to invests in investigate vesti ate it why had ray my lady asked about that handwriting why had she fainted perhaps Snags by the law stat stationer loner who had had these copied could enlighten him yes knew it was the work of a gloomy poverty recluse calling himself memo and lodging over one villainous krooks rag and bottle shop thither they go and up into the squalid chamber nemo Is lying on his wretched led bed his ces staring ills his body motionless god save us he Is dead ile exclaimed mr Tul kinghorn I 1 heard of the inquest through mr guppy a shrewd young law clerk who had made hopeless calf love to me the only witness who seemed to hav bay known the dead man was jo a forlorn boy crossing sweeper and lie he knew little littie ittle ittie except 64 iri n good to me e but mr Tul kinghorn docketed jo for further use meantime 1 I 1 have seen the man whose bose handwriting attracted your attention he wrote lady bedlock Ded lock and soon after on a visit to chesney wold 1 I found him dead lie he tells my lady face to face and whether each evermore watches and suspects the other what each would give to know how much the other knows all this Is hidden for a time in their own hearts the faithful mr guppy whom I 1 could never encourage because well because there was mas dr allan wood court for one thing gave we me the news of jos arrest for loitering and of the strange story he told la in explanation of money found on him they took him to Snags bys and tills this was jos tale left mr snags liy by out of a as give mu me by a lady in a wale as said she was lit a servant and as come to my crossin cross ln one night and asked to be shoved shoed ahli ere louse ouse and the louse ouse wot him as a aou ou give the whitin to died at and tile berrin berran ground wot lies hes berried in and aad I 1 done st it and now why did hurry oil oft to grim old with this odd tale and why dial mr kinghorn Tul at once call in bucket buckel a great london detective to go and fetch jo and was there any dark import to the bit of melodrama in the lawyers office where the waif was shown a veiled woman dressed as a servant it iti er an it aint ler er he be had said gazing raptly at the figure 1 I know the wale an the bunrist an the gound but it aint cr and nor yet er rings nor yet er bolce its er an it aint I 1 er cr there aint a doubt bucket had whispered to mr Tul kinghorn that it was wag the other one with this ones dress on ble meantime antime I 1 had had my first glimpse of the celebrated lady bedlock Ded lock my guardian had taken us all down to lincolnshire Lincoln shire to visit a friend and it II was in the little parish church I 1 saw her shall I 1 ever forgot forget the rapid beating at my heart occasioned by the look I 1 met as I 1 stood up 7 shall I 1 ever forget the manner in which those handsome proud eyes seemed to J spring out of their languor and to hold mine and very strangely there ads something quickened within me associated with the lonely days at my god mo mothers thees I 1 was soon to know what this meant and curiously enough through mr guppy my impossible suitor it seemed had bad noted a resemblance between betheen myself and lady bedlock Ded lock tie ile had bad learnel learned by cliance chance that my name was not eather summerson but esther Ilaw doa hoping to help me straight to lady bedlock lie he went with his news she received him haughtily but when lie informed her that he had found that his cherished esther was esther my bly god had burst through her ley icy reserve lite life went on for a while with charming grace and abd pleasantness at bleak house then the darkness ol of a terrible disease encompassed roe me ant anil when I 1 had recovered my face was wa 3 so si sadly changed that I 1 hardly knew myself to recuperate my guardian me down don to lincolnshire Lincoln shire near chesney wold and there 1 I met lady ded lock again I 1 was resting on a bench in the beautiful wood near the great mansion one day when she caine and sat down on the seat beside roc me suddenly she caught me to her ber breast kissed me fell down on her knees and cried to me oh my child ray my child I 1 am your unhappy and wicked mother oh try to forgive me I 1 had thought you dead in infancy my cruel sister told roe me so then I 1 felt a burst of gratitude through all my tumult of emotion that I 1 was so changed that I 1 could never disgrace bar by any trace of likeness but nt at once I 1 knew that our secret was not sate safe sly my mother told me of tile the cold and crafty already suspicious of her and ready to charge her with the truth boum you not trust hemr him I 1 had bad asked 1 I shall never try she replied the dark road I 1 have trodden for so many years will end where it will I 1 follow it alone to the end wherever the end I 1 I 1 be soon saon I 1 knew that the mer merciless ciles Tul kinghorn was hot on tile seel scent Journel journeying ng down to chesney wold he i told my mother that he be knew every 1 thing thine and would told her in his ghastly I 1 grip awaiting his own time for revealing the story to sir leicester no did the pitiless so gi give 0 her br e much time of grace when the edl oc r returned to their stately london houam housu a sought my lady and declared ta tf |