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The Household Edition of Bleak House was published in 1873 and contains 61 illustrations by Fred Barnard.

Title Page and Vignette

"Who copied that!"

I am introduced to Conversation Kenge

In an Atmosphere of Booriobooble-Gha

The Lord Chancellor relates the death of Tom Jarndyce.

"We are not so prejudiced as to suppose that in private life you are otherwise than a very estimable man, with a great deal of poetry in your nature, of which you may not be conscious"

The Growlery

"Alfred, my youngest (five), has voluntarily enrolled himself in the Infant Bands of Joy, and is pledged never, through life, to use tobacco in any form"

"If I were in your place, I would seize every Master in Chancery by the throat to-morrow morning, and shake him until his money rolled out of his pockets and his bones rattled in his skin"

Nemo

"He wos wery good to me, he wos!"

"Why, do you know how pretty you are, child?"

Deportment

"Honoured, indeed," said she, "By another visit from the wards of Jarndyce!"

"I'm fly," says Jo. "But fen larks, you know. Stow hooking it!"

"To my great surprise, on going in, I found my guardian still there, and sitting looking at the ashes"

"I have frightened you!" she said

"Jo"

"Who ud go and let a nice innocent lodging to such a reg'lar one as me!"

"I am grown up now, Guppy. I have arrived at maturity"

Grandfather Smallweed astonishes Mr. George

"There she is!" cries Jo

"O, you ridiculous child" observed Mrs. Jellyby, with an abstracted air, as she looked over the despatch last opened; "What a goose you are!"

"Of all my old associates, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for."

"What's gone of your father and mother, eh?"

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