The Lamplighter

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In The Lamplighter, by Charles Dickens, the lamplighter who was in the chair says that if you talk of Murphy and Francis Moore, neither of them ever had any more to do with the stars than Tom Grig had. The chairman says that Tom Grig was one of us, and that it happened to him, as it don’t often happen to a public character in our line, that he had his what-you-may-call-it cast. The text says of lamplighters that they intermarry, and betroth their children in infancy, and that they enter into no plots or conspiracies (for who ever heard of a traitorous lamplighter?).

A speaker calls the gifted Mooney his friend and partner, who is even now pursuing those discoveries which shall enrich us with the precious metal, and make us masters of the world. Tom says it don’t much matter, that he ain’t long for this world, and that eight weeks of marriage, especially with this young woman, might reconcile him to his fate.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.