The history of PendennisEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... Foker the great brewer , Foker , you know he was going to hang himself in consequence of a fatal passion for Miss Amory , who refused him , but was cut down just in time by his valet , and is now abroad , under a keeper . " - - " How ...
... Foker the great brewer , Foker , you know he was going to hang himself in consequence of a fatal passion for Miss Amory , who refused him , but was cut down just in time by his valet , and is now abroad , under a keeper . " - - " How ...
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... Foker senior . When Mr. Foker learned this disagreeable news , there took place between him and his son a violent and painful scene which ended in the poor little gentleman's banishment from England for a year , with a positive order to ...
... Foker senior . When Mr. Foker learned this disagreeable news , there took place between him and his son a violent and painful scene which ended in the poor little gentleman's banishment from England for a year , with a positive order to ...
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... Foker went away then , carrying with him that grief and care which passes free at the strictest Custom - houses , and which proverbially ac- companies the exile , and with this crape over his eyes , even the Parisian Boulevard looked ...
... Foker went away then , carrying with him that grief and care which passes free at the strictest Custom - houses , and which proverbially ac- companies the exile , and with this crape over his eyes , even the Parisian Boulevard looked ...
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... into a fine fortune , " the doctor said . " I see here announced the death of John Henry Foker , Esq . , of Logwood Hall , at Pau , in the Pyrenees , on the 15th ult . " CHAPTER XVI . IN WHICH THE MAJOR IS BIDDEN TO 256 PENDENNIS .
... into a fine fortune , " the doctor said . " I see here announced the death of John Henry Foker , Esq . , of Logwood Hall , at Pau , in the Pyrenees , on the 15th ult . " CHAPTER XVI . IN WHICH THE MAJOR IS BIDDEN TO 256 PENDENNIS .
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... Foker had just become proprietor in Messrs . Gimcrack's shop . Pen's keen eyes and satiric turn showed him at once upon what errand Mr. Foker had been em . ployed ; and he thought of the heir in Horace pouring forth the gathered wine of ...
... Foker had just become proprietor in Messrs . Gimcrack's shop . Pen's keen eyes and satiric turn showed him at once upon what errand Mr. Foker had been em . ployed ; and he thought of the heir in Horace pouring forth the gathered wine of ...
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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...