Coavinses

He took us, first, to Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, where there was a house with barred windows, which he called Coavinses 'Castle.

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He took us, first, to Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, where there was a house with barred windows, which he called Coavinses 'Castle.

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It was so new and so refreshing, he said, for him to want Coavinses instead of Coavinses wanting him!

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“Wot do you mean?” growled Coavinses with an appearance of strong resentment.

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That, all that time, he had been giving employment to a most deserving man, that he had been a benefactor to Coavinses, that he had actually been enabling Coavinses to bring up these charming children in this agreeable way, developing these social virtues!

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“I was the great patron of Coavinses, and his little comforts were MY work!”

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Mr. Jarndyce had ascertained the amount, either from Mr. Skimpole himself or from Coavinses, and had placed the money in my hands with instructions to me to retain my own part of it and hand the rest to Richard.

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“Oh! Coavinses?” cried Mr. Skimpole, at length perceiving what he meant.

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Coavinses, whose doggedness in utterly renouncing the idea was of that intense kind that he could only give adequate expression to it by putting a long interval between each word, and accompanying the last with a jerk that might have dislocated his neck.

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How delightfully poor Coavinses (father of these charming children) illustrated the same principle!

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