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Bleak House was all about Chancery. Here's a quote from Dombey and Son, describing defeat of a pugilist:
"Susan accepting this kind offer, Mr. Toots conducted her to his dwelling, where they were received by the Matron in question who fully justified his character of her, and by the Chicken, who at first supposed, on seeing a lady in the vehicle, that Mr. Dombey had been doubled up, agreeably to his old recommendation, and Miss Dombey abducted. This gentleman awakened in Miss Nipper some considerable astonishment; for, having been defeated by the Larkey Boy, his visage was in a state of such great dilapidation, as to be hardly presentable in society with comfort to the beholders. The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed. "
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The passage you quoted is why some people detest Dickens, myself not included, but.
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Dear WW: to tease you gently, your sentence could in several respects be improved on.
Modern writing style is as superior to Dickens' as automobiles are superior to horses and buggies. Yet there are many who still love horses. Though few want to ride in buggies.
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Listen, wwh... I've spent many a blessed hour held spellbound by Dickens' intricately woven paths of words that took me down and about and in and out and upside down into a world that I'd only known in dreams. And I was once married to a man who said of Dickens (and parroted Twain on Austen) that any library without Dickens was automatically a very good library. 
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