[精品]MRS.LIRRIPER’SLODGINGS(利里普夫人的住处).pdf

MRS. LIRRIPERS LODGINGS MRS. LIRRIPERS LODGINGS By Charles Dickens 1 MRS. LIRRIPERS LODGINGS CHAPTER I--HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasnt a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when wishing to open my mind to those that I can trust, and I should be truly thankful if they were all mankind, but such is not so, for have but a Furnished bill in the window and your watch on the mantelpiece, and farewell to it if you turn your back for but a second, however gentlemanly the manners; nor is being of your own sex any safeguard, as I have reason, in the form of sugar-tongs to know, for that lady (and a fine woman she was) got me to run for a glass of water, on the plea of going to be confined, which certainly turned out true, but it was in the Station-house. Number Eighty-one Norfolk Street, Strand--situated midway between the City and St. Jamess, and within five minutes walk of the principal places of public amusement--is my address. I have rented this house many years, as the parish rate-books will testify; and I could wish my landlord was as alive to the fact as I am myself; but no, bless you, not a half a pound of paint to save his life, nor so much, my dear, as a tile upon the roof, though on your bended knees. My dear, you never have found Number Eighty-one Norfolk Street Strand advertised in Bradshaws Railway Guide, and with the blessing of Heaven you never will or shall so find it. Some there are who do not think it lowering themselv