The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one (Charles Dickens, in Martin Chuzzlewit)
What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )
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