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Victorian novel in which Spooner solicits orange healer? (3,6,6)

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our mutual friend

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(Other definitions for our mutual friend that I've seen before include "China we share" , "John Harmon" , "someone we both know" , "you and I know and like" , "Novel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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