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Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

Charles Dickens

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ed upon with their backs towards me, and looking at nothing very hard.’

‘Brother Francis, brother Francis,’ cried Thomas Idle, ‘before you draw down the blind of the turret and come in to have your head scorched by the hot gas, see if you can, and impart to me, something of the expression of those two amazing men.’

‘The murky shadows,’ said Francis Goodchild, ‘are gathering fast; and the wings of evening, and the wings of coal, are folding over Wigton.  Still, they look at nothing very hard, with their backs towards me.  Ah!  Now, they turn, and I see—’

‘Brother Francis, brother Francis,’ cried Thomas Idle, ‘tell me quickly what you see of the two men of Wigton!’

‘I see,’ said Francis Goodchild, ‘that they have no expression at all.  And now the town goes to sleep, undazzled by the large unlighted lamp in the market-place; a. . . Read More

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I wish I could get some traction in this book, but found myself being bogged down with ordinary writing. Let’s face it, our idle apprentices are Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Dickens is the elder, more experienced, and successful writer to date, and Collins is about three years from publishing

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