title: Dickens as Satirist (Study in English)
author:  Sylvia Bank Manning 
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  # A House to Let
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles Dickens and Others
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### OVER THE WAY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  I had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for
  
  
  ten years, when my medical man--very clever in his profession, and
  
  
  the prettiest player I ever saw in my life of a hand at Long Whist,
  
  
  which was a noble and a princely game before Short was heard of--
  
  
  said to me, one day, as he sat feeling my pulse on the actual sofa
  
  
  which my poor dear sister Jane worked before her spine came on, and
  
  
  laid her on a board for fifteen months at a stretch--the most
  
  
  upright woman that ever lived--said to me, "What we want, ma'am, is
  
  
  a fillip."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Good gracious, goodness gracious, Doctor Towers!" says I, quite
  
  
  startled at the man, for he was so christened himself: "don't talk
  
  
  as if you were alluding to people's names; but say what you mean."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "I mean, my dear ma'am, that we want 