The history of PendennisEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... baronet . This priceless gem of art the widow determined to devote to Goodenough , the preserver of her son ; and there was scarcely any other favor which her grati- tude would not have conferred upon him , except one , which he desired ...
... baronet . This priceless gem of art the widow determined to devote to Goodenough , the preserver of her son ; and there was scarcely any other favor which her grati- tude would not have conferred upon him , except one , which he desired ...
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... Baronet's pecuniary matters , if the Major did not know , it was because Clavering himself did not know them , and hid them from himself and others in such a hopeless entanglement of lies , that it was impossible for advisor or attorney ...
... Baronet's pecuniary matters , if the Major did not know , it was because Clavering himself did not know them , and hid them from himself and others in such a hopeless entanglement of lies , that it was impossible for advisor or attorney ...
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... Baronet was a gentleman of that peculiarity of mind that he would rather tell a lie than not , and always began a contest with fortune by running away and hiding himself . The Boots of Mr. Short's estab- IX CONVERSATIONS.
... Baronet was a gentleman of that peculiarity of mind that he would rather tell a lie than not , and always began a contest with fortune by running away and hiding himself . The Boots of Mr. Short's estab- IX CONVERSATIONS.
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... at Grosvenor Place , he found all these suspicious docu- ments ranged in the Baronet's study ; and began to open them and examine them with a rueful countenance . Mrs. Bonner , my lady's maid and housekeeper , came 134 PENDENNIS .
... at Grosvenor Place , he found all these suspicious docu- ments ranged in the Baronet's study ; and began to open them and examine them with a rueful countenance . Mrs. Bonner , my lady's maid and housekeeper , came 134 PENDENNIS .
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... Baronet crying and drinking Curaçoa . " Psha ! Do you suppose I am a fool ? " burst out Strong . " Do you suppose I could have lived so long in the world , Frank Clavering , without having my eyes about me ? You know I have but to speak ...
... Baronet crying and drinking Curaçoa . " Psha ! Do you suppose I am a fool ? " burst out Strong . " Do you suppose I could have lived so long in the world , Frank Clavering , without having my eyes about me ? You know I have but to speak ...
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ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet begad Begum bless blush Bonner Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain carriage chambers Chatteris Chevalier Clavering Arms Clavering family Clavering's Colonel Costigan creature cried Curaçoa dammy dear dearest dev'lish dinner door eyes face Fairoaks fellow Foker fortune George girl give Grosvenor Place hand happy heard heart Helen honor Huxter kind kissed knew Lady Clavering Lady Rockminster ladyship laugh letter Lightfoot live looked Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Miss Amory Miss Bell Miss Blanche Morgan mother never night old gentleman old lady old Pendennis Parliament passed Pen's Pendennis's poor pray pretty Rosenbad secret Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering smile speak Strong talk tell there's thing thought told took Tunbridge uncle valet voice walked Warrington Wheel of Fortune widow wife wish woman word young lady
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Seite 369 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell : the reason why I cannot tell,
Seite 172 - I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different ^ conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.
Seite 172 - ... and conscienceless and serene. Conscience! What is conscience? Why accept remorse? What is public or private faith? Mythuses alike enveloped in enormous tradition. If, seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest further than a laugh; if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass groaning by you unmoved: if the fight for the truth is taking place, and all...
Seite 171 - ... solutions to those come to by our friend. We are not pledging ourselves for the correctness of his opinions, which readers will please to consider are delivered dramatically, the writer being no more answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered by any other character of the story: our endeavor is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development of the mind of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truthavoiding man.
Seite 172 - Ministerial benches. 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...