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The Old Man`s Tale of the Queer Client – Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
The  son of a government clerk, Charles Dickens was born at Portsea in 1812. His  family moved to London shortly after his birth. The early London life of the  Dickens family was utilized in several of the son’s novels, especially in David  Copperfield. His first great success was with the Pickwick Papers, which  appeared serially in 1836.
The Old Man`s Tale of the Queer Client – Then  followed the novels which have become celebrated and are read the world over.  Dickens was an indefatigable writer, editor and, later in life, a public  reader. He wrote a number of short stories, of which The Old Man’s Tale of the  Queer Client is probably the most skilfully constructed and best written. It is  related by one of the characters in the Pickwick Papers.
The Old Man`s Tale of the Queer  Client
From  the Pickwick Papers
“TT  matters little,” said the old man, “where, or how, I picked up A this brief  history. If I were to relate it in the order in which it reached me, I should  commence in the middle, and when I had arrived at the conclusion, go back for a  beginning. It is enough for me to say that some of its circumstances passed  before my own eyes. For the remainder I know them to have happened, and there  are some persons yet living who will remember them but too well.
“In  the Borough High Street, near St. George’s Church, and on the same side of the  way, stands, as most people know, the smallest of our debtor’s prisons, the  Marshalsea. Although in later times it has been a very different place from the  sink of filth and dirt it once was, even its improved condition holds out but  little temptation to the extravagant, or consolation to the provident. The  condemned felon has as good a yard for air and exercise in Newgate, as the  insolvent debtor in the Marshalsea Prison.