The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The history of PendennisScribner, 1904 |
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... Major Pen- dennis . " What , you're Wigsby's nephew , are you ? " said the peer . " I beg your pardon , we always call him Wigs- by . " Pen blushed to hear his venerable uncle called by such a familiar name . " We balloted you in last ...
... Major Pen- dennis . " What , you're Wigsby's nephew , are you ? " said the peer . " I beg your pardon , we always call him Wigs- by . " Pen blushed to hear his venerable uncle called by such a familiar name . " We balloted you in last ...
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... Major Pendennis ; and was not a little relieved to find that the Major had not yet returned to town . His apart- ments were blank . Brown Hollands covered his li- brary - table , and bills and letters lay on the mantel- piece , grimly ...
... Major Pendennis ; and was not a little relieved to find that the Major had not yet returned to town . His apart- ments were blank . Brown Hollands covered his li- brary - table , and bills and letters lay on the mantel- piece , grimly ...
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... Major . " The cadets of many of our good families follow the robe as a profession . Comfortable rooms , eh ? " 66 Honly saw the outside of the door , sir , with Mr. Warrington's name and Mr. Harthur's painted up , and a piece of paper ...
... Major . " The cadets of many of our good families follow the robe as a profession . Comfortable rooms , eh ? " 66 Honly saw the outside of the door , sir , with Mr. Warrington's name and Mr. Harthur's painted up , and a piece of paper ...
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... Major was too wise to have a nephew as a constant inmate of any house where he was in the habit of passing his time - the Major one day entered one of those public vehicles , and bade the con- ductor to put him down at the gate of the ...
... Major was too wise to have a nephew as a constant inmate of any house where he was in the habit of passing his time - the Major one day entered one of those public vehicles , and bade the con- ductor to put him down at the gate of the ...
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... Major shuddered to think that any one should select such a residence . Good Ged ! " he said , " the poor boy mustn't live on here . " 66 The feeble and filthy oil - lamps , with which the stair- cases of the Upper Temple are lighted of ...
... Major shuddered to think that any one should select such a residence . Good Ged ! " he said , " the poor boy mustn't live on here . " 66 The feeble and filthy oil - lamps , with which the stair- cases of the Upper Temple are lighted of ...
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acquaintance ain't amused Ann Milton Arthur Pendennis asked Back Kitchen Bacon Baronet begad better Blanche blush Bolton Bows Bungay Bungay's called Captain Costigan carriage chambers Clavering family Colchicum Colonel Altamont cried daugh daughter dear delighted devilish dine dinner Doolan door eyes face Fairoaks fellow Finucane gentleman girl give Grosvenor Place hand heard heart honest honour Huxter Jove knew Lady Agnes Lady Clavering Lady Clavering's Lamb Court laugh Laura little Fanny live London looked Lord Lord Steyne Lowton Major Pendennis mamma marry Mirabel Miss Amory Morgan morning mother never night novel Oxbridge Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's play pleasure poor Popjoy pretty Pynsent sate Shandon Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering speak Strong talk tell Temple thought took uncle Vauxhall voice Wagg walked Warrington Wenham woman young youth
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Seite 84 - ALTHOUGH I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover ; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her. The Minster bell tolls out Above the city's rout, And noise and humming : They've hush'd the Minster bell : The organ 'gins to swell : She's coming, she's coming...
Seite 179 - When nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights, was most active with her knife and fork, and consumed a very substantial portion of mutton cutlets : in which piece of hypocrisy it is believed she resembled other young ladies of fashion. Pen and his uncle declined the refection, but they admired the dining-room with fitting compliments, and pronounced it " very chaste," that being the proper...
Seite 135 - It is to be called the Pall Mall Gazette, sir, and we shall be very happy to have you with us," Shandon said. "Pall Mall Gazette— why Pall Mall Gazette?" asked Wagg. " Because the editor was born at Dublin, the sub-editor at Cork ; because the proprietor lives in Paternoster Row, and the paper is published in Catherine Street, Strand.