Purpose
Chapter 15. The Whole Case so Far
Chapter 16. An Anniversary Occasion
Chapter 1. Lodgers in Queer Street
Chapter 2. A Respected Friend in a New Aspect
Chapter 3. The Same Respected Friend in more Aspects than One
Chapter 4. A Happy Return of the Day
Chapter 5. The Golden Dustman Falls into Bad Company
Chapter 6. The Golden Dustman Falls into Worse Company
Chapter 7. The Friendly Move Takes Up a Strong Position
Chapter 8. The End of a Long Journey
Chapter 9. Somebody Becomes the Subject of a Prediction
Chapter 13. Give a Dog a Bad Name, and Hang Him
Chapter 14. Mr Wegg Prepares a Grindstone for Mr Boffin’s Nose
Chapter 15. The Golden Dustman at His Worst
Chapter 16. The Feast of the Three Hobgoblins
Chapter 2. The Golden Dustman Rises a Little
Chapter 3. The Golden Dustman Sinks Again
Chapter 5. Concerning the Mendicant’s Bride
Chapter 7. Better to be Abel than Cain
Chapter 8. A Few Grains of Pepper
Chapter 10. The Dolls’ Dressmaker Discovers a Word
Chapter 11. Effect is Given to the Dolls’ Dressmaker’s Discovery
Chapter 12. The Passing Shadow
Chapter 13. Showing How the Golden Dustman Helped to Scatter Dust
Chapter 14. Checkmate to the Friendly Move
Chapter 15. What was Caught in the Traps that were Set
Chapter 16. Persons and Things in General
Chapter 17. The Voice of Society
Postscript. In Lieu of Preface
Book the First.
The Cup and the Lip
Chapter 1.
On the Look Out
In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.
The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, and a dark girl of nineteen or twenty, sufficiently like him to be recognizable as his daughter. The girl rowed, pulling a pair of sculls very easily; the man, with the rudder-lines slack in his hands, and his hands loose in his waistband, kept an eager look out. He had no net, hook, or line, and he could not be a fisherman;
