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Mrs. Dilber and the charwoman bargaining over the dead man's effects at Old Joe's. 'He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!'
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From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Scavengers sell off the dead man's belongings - bed-curtains, shirt, even the shirt off the corpse - in one of literature's bleakest visions of a lonely death.
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