A House to Let, et al by Charles Dickens (books to read in your 30s .txt) 📕

As I say, I went and saw for myself. The lodging was perfect.That, I was sure it would be; because Trottle is the best judge ofcomfort I know. The empty house was an eyesore; and that I was sureit would be too, for the same reason. However, setting the onething against the other, the good against the bad, the lodging verysoon got the victory over the House. My lawyer, Mr. Squares, ofCrown Office Row; Temple, drew up an agreement; which his young manjabbered over so dreadfully when he read it to me, that I didn'tunderstand one word of it except my own name; and hardly that, and Isigned it, and the other party signed it, and, in three weeks' time,I moved my old bones, bag and baggage, up to London.

For the first month or so, I arranged to leave Trottle at the Wells.I made this arrangement, not only because there was a good deal totake care of in the way of my school-children and pensioners, andalso of a new stove in the hall to air the house in my absence,which appe