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and soon takes him on as a personal servant and companion on his travels. Initially, Sam Weller accepts the job as
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for debt Weller gets himself arrested so that he can join
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in 1836, pronouncing a "v" where there should be a "w", and "w” where there should be a "v" - "wery" instead of "very" and "avay" instead of "away" - in language that was outdated just 40 years after the novel's publication. Having trouble composing his
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