Bleak House, Vol. II ~ Paperbound

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CHAPTER
1
CHAPTER XXXIV
36
CHAPTER XXXV
55
CHAPTER XXXVI
73
CHAPTER XXXVII
92
CHAPTER XXXVIII
114
CHAPTER XL
146
In Mr Tulkinghorns Room
161
CHAPTER LI
300
CHAPTER LII
314
CHAPTER LIII
327
CHAPTER LIV
341
CHAPTER LV
366
CHAPTER LVI
384
CHAPTER LVII
394
CHAPTER LVIII
415

CHAPTER XLII
172
CHAPTER XLIII
181
CHAPTER XLIV
200
CHAPTER XLV
209
CHAPTER XLVI
224
CHAPTER XLVII
235
CHAPTER XLVIII
252
CHAPTER XLIX
271
CHAPTER L
288
Esthers Narrative
432
CHAPTER LX
448
CHAPTER LXI
463
CHAPTER LXII
476
CHAPTER LXIII
487
CHAPTER LXIV
496
CHAPTER LXV
509
CHAPTER LXVI
518
CHAPTER LXVII
523

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 268 - A very quiet night. When the moon shines very brilliantly ; a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her, that influence even crowded places full of life.
Página 89 - I knew I was as innocent of my birth, as a queen of hers; and that before my Heavenly Father I should not be punished for birth, nor a queen rewarded for it.
Página 251 - Where they laid him as wos wery good to me, wery good to me indeed, he wos. It's time fur me to go down to that there berryin ground, sir, and ask to be put along with him. I wants to go there and be berried. He used fur to say to me, 'I am as poor as you to-day, Jo,' he ses. I wants to tell him that I am as poor as him now and have come there to be laid along with him.
Página 83 - He has none, and no anger. He is indifferent to everything but his calling. His calling is the acquisition of secrets, and the holding possession of such power as they give him, with no sharer or opponent in it.
Página 56 - Dare I hint at that worse time when, strung together somewhere in great black space, there was a flaming necklace, or ring, or starry circle of some kind, of which /was one of the beads ! And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest, and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a part of the dreadful thing ? Perhaps the less I say of these sick experiences, the less tedious and the more intelligible I shall be.
Página 128 - The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a, coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
Página 251 - Dead! Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts.
Página 360 - I went home, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, at night, and found this young woman having supper with my wife, Mrs. Bucket. She had made a mighty show of being fond of Mrs. Bucket from her first offering herself as our lodger, but that night she made more than ever — in fact, overdid it. Likewise, she overdid her respect, and all that, for the lamented memory of the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn. By the living Lord, it flashed upon me, as I sat opposite to her at the table and saw her with a knife in...
Página 511 - ... in bags, bundles too large to be got into any bags, immense masses of papers of all shapes and no shapes, which the bearers staggered under, and threw down for the time being, anyhow, on the Hall pavement, while they went back to bring out more. Even these clerks were laughing. We glanced at the papers, and seeing Jarndyce and Jarndyce everywhere, asked an official-looking person who was standing in the midst of them, whether the cause was over. 'Yes,' he said ; 'it was all up with it at last!

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