"A boat of dirty and disreputable appearance" is floating on this river at the beginning of "Our Mutual Friend"
[DOC] [TLE] Our Mutual Friend - An Introduction To Dickens's Novel [PAR] Mar 7, 2016 ... Our Mutual Friend is a book that has the River Thames, quite literally, ... a boat 
of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated ... of the river 
steamboats as they beat the filthy water, at the floating logs of... [DOC] [TLE] Lost Industry of London Guided Walk [PAR] At the beginning of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Gaffer Hexham and 
Daughter Lizzie are making a living from finding corpses floating in the Thames... [DOC] [TLE] March | 2011 | Ruins of the 20th Century [PAR] Mar 26, 2011 ... ... the one that opens Charles Dickens's 1865 novel Our Mutual Friend.