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  • There was nobody at the chambers but Young Blight.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Lightwood; who laid about him professionally with such unwonted despatch and intention, that a piece of work was vigorously pursued as soon as cut out; whereby Young Blight was acted on as by that transatlantic dram which is poetically named An EyeOpener, and found himself staring at real clients instead of out of window.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Young Blight was gone, the coffeehouse waiter was gone, the plates and dishes were gone, the wine was going — but not in the same direction.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • There was nobody at the chambers but Young Blight.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • 'I don't mind it much,' returned Young Blight, heaving a sigh, as if its bitterness were past.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • Young Blight made a great show of fetching from his desk a long thin manuscript volume with a brown paper cover, and running his finger down the day's appointments, murmuring, 'Mr Aggs, Mr Baggs, Mr Caggs, Mr

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • Young Blight was gone, the coffee-house waiter was gone, the plates and dishes were gone, the wine was going -- but not in the same direction.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • ‘I don’t mind it much,’ returned Young Blight, heaving a sigh, as if its bitterness were past.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Young Blight made a great show of fetching from his desk a long thin manuscript volume with a brown paper cover, and running his finger down the day’s appointments, murmuring, ‘Mr Aggs, Mr

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Eugene looks ‘Excuse me,’ towards Mrs Veneering, goes out, and finds Young Blight, Mortimer’s clerk, at the hall-door.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

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