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Quotation from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
“On the ledge at the side, were an empty laudanum-bottle and a tortoise-shell handled penknife--soiled, but not with ink”
Little Dorrit, Book the Second, Ch. 25 ('The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office') (Project Gutenberg #963)
Merdle's body is found in a public bath; the Physician attends.
Citation: "On the ledge at the side, were an empty laudanum-bottle and a tortoise-shell handled penknife--soiled, but not with ink" — Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Book the Second, Ch. 25 ('The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office') (Project Gutenberg #963). (id little-dorrit-q11)
