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Household Edition

The Household Edition of Our Mutual Friend was published in 1875 and features 58 illustrations by James Mahoney.

The Bird of Prey

"Show us a picture," said the boy. "Tell us where to look"

When it came to Bella's turn to sign her name, Mr. Rokesmith, who was standing, as he had sat, with a hesitating hand upon the table, looked at her stealthily but narrowly

"Here you are again," repeated Mr. Wegg, musing. "And what are you now?"

"Lizzie, looking for her father, saw him coming, and stood upon the causeway that he might see her"

After holding her to his breast with a passionate cry, he took up his bundle and darted out at the door, with an arm across his eyes

"You're casting your eye round the shop, Mr. Wegg. Let me show you a light."

"Noddy!" said Mrs. Boffin, coming from her fashionable sofa to his side on the plain settle, and hooking her comfortable arm through his

That he knew it as well as she, she knew as well as he, when they were left together standing on the path by the garden-gate

She sits upon her stone, and takes no heed of him

"Apparently one of the ghosts has lost his way, and dropped in to be directed. Look at this phantom"

It was a little window of but four pieces of glass, and was not curtained; he chose it because the larger window near it was

They had opened the door at the bottom of the staircase giving on the yard, and they stood in the sun-light, looking at the scrawl of two unsteady childish hands two or three steps up the staircase

"Come here, Toddles and Poddles"

Mr. Bradley Headstone, highly certificated stipendiary schoolmaster, drew his right fore-finger through one of the button-holes of the boy's coat, and looked at it attentively

He stood leaning by the door at Lizzie's side

"One thing, however, that I can do for you," says Tremlow; "and that is, work for you." Veneering blesses him again

"Ah! Here was Alfred. Having stolen in unobserved, he playfully leaned on the back of Sophronia's chair"

Perched on the stool, with his hat cocked on his head, and one of his legs dangling, the youth of Fledgeby hardly contrasted to advantage with the age of the Jewish man as he stood with his bare head bowed

"Come up and be dead! Come up and be dead!"

"Good-evening, Mr. Wegg. The yard-gate lock should be looked to, if you please; it don't catch"

"You never charge me, Miss Wilfer," said the Secretary, encountering her by chance alone in the great drawing-room, "with commissions for home. I shall always be happy to execute any commands you may have in that direction"

"Now, you may give me a kiss, Pa"

"A kiss for the boofer lady"

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