A House to Let by Charles Dickens (book recommendations based on other books .txt) 📕

legs and a little smile, and a little voice, and littleround-about ways. As long as I can remember him he was always goinglittle errands for people, and carrying little gossip. At this presenttime when he called me "Sophonisba!" he had a little old-fashionedlodging in that new neighbourhood of mine. I had not seen him for two orthree years, but I had heard that he still went out with a littleperspective-glass and stood on door-steps in Saint James's Street, to seethe nobility go to Court; and went in his little cloak and goloshesoutside Willis's rooms to see them go to Almack's; and caught thefrightfullest colds, and got himself trodden upon by coachmen andlinkmen, until he went home to his landlady a mass of bruises, and had tobe nursed for a month.

Jarber took off his little fur-collared cloak, and sat down opposite me,with his little cane and hat in his hand.

"Let us have no more Sophonisbaing, if you please, Jarber," I said."Call me Sarah. How do you do? I hope you are pr