The history of PendennisEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... letter had reached his brother's house - the Eastern Counties did not then boast of a railway ( for we beg the reader to under- stand that we only commit anachronisms when we choose , and when by a daring violation of those natu- ral ...
... letter had reached his brother's house - the Eastern Counties did not then boast of a railway ( for we beg the reader to under- stand that we only commit anachronisms when we choose , and when by a daring violation of those natu- ral ...
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... letter informing him of the use to which his apartments had been put , wrote back the most polite and flowery letter of acquiescence . He placed his chambers at the service of their fair occupants , his bed at their disposal , his ...
... letter informing him of the use to which his apartments had been put , wrote back the most polite and flowery letter of acquiescence . He placed his chambers at the service of their fair occupants , his bed at their disposal , his ...
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... letters that lay amongst those articles of raiment , and which of course it was necessary that somebody should answer ... letter which arrived , whether from boot - makers who impor- tuned him , or hatters who had a heavy account to make ...
... letters that lay amongst those articles of raiment , and which of course it was necessary that somebody should answer ... letter which arrived , whether from boot - makers who impor- tuned him , or hatters who had a heavy account to make ...
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... letters during his illness . There could have been nothing in the young man's chests of drawers and wardrobes which could be con- sidered as inculpating him in any way , nor any satis- factory documents regarding the Fanny Bolton affair ...
... letters during his illness . There could have been nothing in the young man's chests of drawers and wardrobes which could be con- sidered as inculpating him in any way , nor any satis- factory documents regarding the Fanny Bolton affair ...
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... letters to him , you may have done yourself a great injury ; and , if I know anything of Arthur's spirit , may cause a ... letter , " broke out Helen- " only a very little one - only a few words . Here it isoh - how can you , how can you ...
... letters to him , you may have done yourself a great injury ; and , if I know anything of Arthur's spirit , may cause a ... letter , " broke out Helen- " only a very little one - only a few words . Here it isoh - how can you , how can you ...
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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...