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Works of Charles Dickens: Bleak House: Chapters 1 - 7
From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Bleak House: Chapters 1 - 7
Chapter One: In Chancery
It is a foggy London afternoon early in November. The air is heavy with
soot and the roadways are clogged with mud and grime. "The afternoon is
rawest, and the fog densest, and the muddy streets muddiest" at the Temple
Bar, Lincoln's Inn Hall. For here the Lord High Chancellor sits at the bench
in the High Court of Chancery.
Like the fog and the mud of the ancient London streets, the Court of
Chancery moves through its business without direction and without movement.
It seems as if the fog has ...
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