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happening daily, over the period of a day, or in the day rather than the evening
- No chance-child was he, for he could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, who lived hard by; his mother being a washerwoman, and his father a drunken soldier, discharged with a wooden leg, and a diurnal pension of twopence-halfpenny and an unstateable fraction.Chapter 5 — Oliver Mingles with New Associates. Going to a Funeral.... (29% in)
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