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Mr Dickens

You make reference ( in NN if I recall) to out-of-door clerks.  Could you
explain their function please?  Were they lawyers' "runners" i.e.
messengers?  Why out-of-door?  Also, could you please explain the meaning
of the expression 'all smiles and shirt collar'?  Given the size and
whiteness of some early shirt collars I thought they might match the
whiteness of the smile and thus add to to its extent.  I am probably wrong
and would like clarification.  At your convenience, of course.

Best wishes

Ali Luya





add to the whiteness of the smile broadness of

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