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"House to Let". All, however, is not as it seems and she is drawn into
the mystery which surrounds the house. Originally published in 1858 in
the Christmas edition of "House Worlds Magazine", Dickens and his
fellow contributors wrote a chapter each and Dickens edited the whole.
We have already released Dicken's chapter which was "Going into
Society". However, its good to have the whole book too so that people
know how the story starts and ends.

A HOUSE TO LET

Contents:
Over the Way The Manchester Marriage Going into Society Three
Evenings in the House Trottle's Report Let at Last

OVER THE WAY

I had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for
ten years, when my medical man--very clever in his profession, and the
prettiest player I ever saw in my life of a hand at Long Whist, which

was a noble and a princely game before Short was heard of-- said to me,
one day, as he sat feeling my pulse on the actual sofa which my poor
dear sister Jane worked before her spine came on, and laid her on a
board for fifteen months at a stretch--the most upright woman that ever
lived--said to me, "What we want, ma'am, is a fillip."
"Good gracious, goodness gracious, Doctor Towers!" says I, quite
startled at the man, for he was so christened himself: "don't talk as if
you were alluding to people's names; but say what you mean."
"I mean, my dear ma'am, that we want a little change of air and scene."
"Bless the man!" said I; "does he mean we or me!"
"I mean you, ma'am."
"Then Lard forgive you, Doctor Towers," I said; "why don't you get
into a habit of expressing yourself in a straightforward manner, like a
loyal subject of our gracious Queen Victoria, and a member of the
Church of England?"
Towers laughed, as he generally does when he has fidgetted me into
any of my impatient ways--one of my states, as I call them--and then he
began, -
"Tone, ma'am, Tone, is all you require!" He appealed to Trottle, who
just then came in with the coal-scuttle, looking, in his nice black suit,
like an amiable man putting on coals from motives of benevolence.
Trottle (whom I always call my right hand) has been in my service
two-and-thirty years.