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chattels |
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chattels Noun, pl Old-fashioned possessions [Old French chatel personal property] |
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| I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind; for when I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house various chattels and valuable goods: but now, though he swears I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it. Old lodgers like myself soon grow as attached to our chattels as to a kinsman. After every successful trade he generally passed a longer or shorter term in jail; for when a poor man without goods or chattels has the inveterate habit of swapping, it follows naturally that he must have something to swap; and having nothing of his own, it follows still more naturally that he must swap something belonging to his neighbors. |
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