The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Band 11Estes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... answer is given at once , that al- most everybody in the Temple was out of town , and that there was scarcely a single occupant of Pen's house in Lamb Court except those who were engaged round the sick - bed of the sick gentleman ...
... answer is given at once , that al- most everybody in the Temple was out of town , and that there was scarcely a single occupant of Pen's house in Lamb Court except those who were engaged round the sick - bed of the sick gentleman ...
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... answered in a tremulous , though cheery voice it was curious how emotion seemed to olden him and returning Warrington's pressure with a shaking hand , told him the news of Arthur's happy crisis , of his mother's arrival with her young ...
... answered in a tremulous , though cheery voice it was curious how emotion seemed to olden him and returning Warrington's pressure with a shaking hand , told him the news of Arthur's happy crisis , of his mother's arrival with her young ...
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... answer during Arthur's weakened and incapa- ble condition . Perhaps Mrs. Pendennis was laudably desirous to have some explanations about the dreadful Fanny Bolton mystery , regarding which she had never breathed a word to her son ...
... answer during Arthur's weakened and incapa- ble condition . Perhaps Mrs. Pendennis was laudably desirous to have some explanations about the dreadful Fanny Bolton mystery , regarding which she had never breathed a word to her son ...
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... answered . " I said I would tell you about it some day , Pen ; and will , but not now . Take the moral without the fable now , Pen , my boy : to see a man whose whole life has and if you want been wrecked , by an unlucky rock against ...
... answered . " I said I would tell you about it some day , Pen ; and will , but not now . Take the moral without the fable now , Pen , my boy : to see a man whose whole life has and if you want been wrecked , by an unlucky rock against ...
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... answer any inquiries ; his maxim being that he only knew gentlemen who frequented that room , in that room ; that when they quitted that room , having paid their scores as gentlemen , and behaved as gen- tlemen , his communication with ...
... answer any inquiries ; his maxim being that he only knew gentlemen who frequented that room , in that room ; that when they quitted that room , having paid their scores as gentlemen , and behaved as gen- tlemen , his communication with ...
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ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet begad Begum blush Bonner Bows Brixham Bungay carriage chambers Chatteris Chevalier Clavering family Clavering Park Club Colonel confounded Costigan creature cried dammy dare dear dev'lish dinner door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny Bolton fellow Foker fortune George girl give good-humor Grosvenor Place hand happy heard heart Helen honor Huxter Jack Holt kind knew Lady Clavering Lady Rockminster ladyship laugh Laura letter Lightfoot live lodgings London looked Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Miss Amory Miss Bell Miss Blanche Morgan mother never night old gentleman old lady old Major old Pendennis Parliament passed Pen's Pendennis's poor pounds pretty Rosenbad Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering speak talk tell there's thing thought told took Tunbridge uncle valet walked Warrington Wheel of Fortune widow wife wish woman word young lady
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Seite 359 - I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.
Seite 174 - Wilderness shouting to the poor, who were listening with all their might and faith to the preacher's awful accents and denunciations of wrath or woe or salvation; and our friend the Sadducee would turn his sleek mule •with a shrug and a smile from the crowd, and go home to the shade of his terrace, and muse over preacher and audience, and turn to his roll of Plato, or his pleasant Greek song-book babbling of honey and Hybla, and nymphs and fountains and love. To what, we say, does this scepticism...
Seite 170 - You are sixand-twenty years old, and as blase as a rake of sixty. You neither hope much, nor care much, nor believe much. You doubt about other men as much as about yourself. Were it made of such pococuranti as you, the world would be intolerable ; and I had rather live in a wilderness of monkeys, and listen to their chatter, than in a company of men who denied everything." "Were the world composed of Saint Bernards or Saint Dominies, it would be equally odious," said Pen, "and at the end of a few...
Seite 382 - If the best men do not draw the great prizes in life, we know it has been so settled by the Ordainer of the lottery. We own, and see daily, how the false and worthless live and prosper, while the good are called away, and the dear and young perish...
Seite 174 - I see it in this man who worships by Act of Parliament, and is rewarded with a silk apron and five thousand a year; in that man, who, driven fatally by the remorseless logic of his creed, gives up everything, friends...