Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor, Vol. 9: British; Dickens to Kipling
It made me very miserable to hear it, and I looked at Mrs. Micawber's red eyes with the utmost sympathy.
With the exception of the heel of a Dutch cheese, which is not adapted to the wants Of a young family, said Mrs. Micawber, there is really not a scrap of anything in the larder. I was accustomed to speak of the larder when I lived with papa and mamma, and I used the word almost unconsciously. What I mean to express is that there is nothing to eat in the house.
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