There was a christening party at the largest coffin-maker's, and a funeral hatchment had stopped some great… — Charles Dickens
There was a christening party at the largest coffin-maker's, and a funeral hatchment had stopped some great improvements in the bravest mansion. Life and death went hand in hand; wealth and poverty stood side by side; repletion and starvation laid the down together.
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