BleakHouse
by
CharlesDickens
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by Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
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Bleak House
by
Charles Dickens
PREFACE
A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, asone of a company of some hundred and fifty men and womennot labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju-dice (at which point I thought the judge’s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admit-ted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this wasexaggerated and had been entirely owing to the “parsimony of the public,” which guilty public, it appeared, had been untillately bent in the most determined manner on by no meansenlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed—I be-lieve by Richard the Second, but any other king will do as well.This seemed to me too profound a joke to be inserted in thebody of this book or I should have restored it to ConversationKenge or to Mr. Vholes, with one or other of whom I think itmust have originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets:“My nature is subduedTo what it works in, like the dyer’s hand:Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed!”But as it is wholesome that the parsimonious public shouldknow what has been doing, and still is doing, in thisconnexion, I mention here that everything set forth in thesepages concerning the Court of Chancery is substantially true,and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essentialaltered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis-interested person who was professionally acquainted withthe whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit beforethe court which was commenced nearly twenty years ago, in which from thirty to forty counsel have been known to ap-pear at one time, in which costs have been incurred to theamount of seventy thousand pounds, which is
a friendly suit
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