RKS Literature: A Twit Pontificates on Aristocratic Blood (Charles Dickens)

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‘Oh you know, deuce take it’ said this gentleman, looking round the board with an imbecile smile,’ we can’t forego Blood, you know. We must have Blood, you know. Some young fellows, you know, may be a little behind their station, perhaps, in point of education and behaviour, and may be a little wrong, you know, and get themselves, and other people into a variety of fixes-and all that-but deuce take it, it’s delightful to reflect that they’ve got Blood in ‘em! Myself I’d rather at any time be knocked down by a man who got Blood in him, than I’d be picked up by a man that hadn’t!’

Charles Dickens, “David Copperfield”, 1850.

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Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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