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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... I don''t believe there''s no sich a person! After the utterance of which expressions, she leaned forward, and snapped her fingers once, twice, thrice; each time nearer to the face of Mrs. Gamp; and then rose to put on her bonnet, as one who felt that there was now a gulf between them, which nothing could ever bridge across. The shock of this blow was so violent and sudden that Mrs. Gamp sat staring at nothing with uplifted eyes, and her mouth open as if she were gasping for breath, until Bet THEN UBS. GAMP ROSE--MORALLY AND PHYSICALLY HOSE--AND DENOUNCED HER sey Prig had put on her bonnet and her shawl, and was gathering the latter about her throat. Then Mrs. Gamp rose-- morally and physically rose--and denounced her. What! said Mrs. Gamp, you bage creetur, have I know''d Mrs. Harris five-and-thirty year, to be told at last that there ain''t no sech a person livin''! Have I stood her friend in all her troubles, great and small, for it to come at last to sech a end as this, which her own sweet picter hang ing up afore you all the time to shame your Bragian words! But well you mayn''t believe there''s no sech a creetur, for she wouldn''t demean herself to look at you, and often has she said, when I have made mention of your name, which, to my sinful sorrow, I have done, ''What, Sairey Gamp! debage yourself to her!'' Go along with you! I''m a goin'', ma''am, ain''t I? said Mrs. Prig, stopping as she said it. You had better, ma''am, said Mrs. Gamp. Do you know who you''re talking to, ma''am? inquired her visitor. Aperiently, said Mrs. Gamp, surveying her with scorn from head to foot, to Betsey Prig. Apierently so. J know her. No one better. Go along with you! And you was a going to take me under you! cried Mrs. Prig, surveying Mrs. Gamp from head to foot in her tur...
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