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Mr. Krook, Mrs. Smallweed’s brother died of spontaneous combustion in
the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
“While his readers were anxiously waiting for news of Esther they were
entertained by the most glorious death in literary history - that of
Mr. Krook who died from spontaneous combustion.”
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXII
The Appointed Time
“Help, help, help! Come into this house for heaven's sake! Plenty will
come in, but none can help. The Lord Chancellor of that court, true to
his title in his last act, has died the death of all lord chancellors
in all courts and of all authorities in all places under all names
soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done.
Call the death by any name your Highness will, attribute it to whom
you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the
same death eternally--inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted
humours of the vicious body itself, and that only--spontaneous
combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.”
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CHAPTER XXXIII
Interlopers
"My dear friends," whines Grandfather Smallweed, putting out both his
hands, "I owe you a thousand thanks for discharging the melancholy
office of discovering the ashes of Mrs. Smallweed's brother."
"Eh?" says Mr. Guppy.
"Mrs. Smallweed's brother, my dear friend--her only relation.
Krook was Mrs. Smallweed's only brother; she had no relation but
Krook, and Krook had no relation but Mrs. Smallweed. I am speaking of
your brother, you brimstone black-beetle, that was seventy-six years
of age."
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