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CHAPTER ONE
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INTRODUCTORY, CONCERNING THE PEDIGREE OF THE CHUZZLEWIT FAMILY
As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit Family without being first assured of the extreme antiquity1 of the race, it is a great satisfaction to know that it undoubtedly2 descended3 in a direct line from Adam and Eve; and was, in the very earliest times, closely connected with the agricultural interest. If it should ever be urged by grudging4 and malicious5 persons, that a Chuzzlewit, in any period of the family history, displayed an overweening amount of family pride, surely the weakness will be considered not only pardonable but laudable, when the immense superiority of the house to the rest of mankind, in respect of this its ancient origin, is taken into account.
It is remarkable6 that as there was, in the oldest family of which we have any record, a murderer and a vagabond, so we never fail to meet, in the records of all old families, with innumerable repetitions of the same phase of character. Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry7, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome8 excitement with a promising9 means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.
Consequently, it is a source of inexpressible comfort and happiness to find, that in various periods of our history, the Chuzzlewits were actively
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gracefully
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bestowal
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gratitude
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virtue
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eloquence
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genealogy
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affected
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rumoured
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broached
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Mandarin
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pretence
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sinister
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attained
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mansion
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patronage
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lucrative
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countenance
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demonstration
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sculptor
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