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... whole stock , from begin- ning to end , may easily be the waste paper he bought it as , for anything I can say . It's a monomania with him to think he is possessed of documents . He has been going to learn to read them this last quarter ...
... whole stock , from begin- ning to end , may easily be the waste paper he bought it as , for anything I can say . It's a monomania with him to think he is possessed of documents . He has been going to learn to read them this last quarter ...
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... whole court , adult as well as boy , is sleepless for that night , and can do nothing but wrap up its many heads , and talk of the ill - fated house , and look at it . Miss Flite has been bravely rescued from her chamber , as if it were ...
... whole court , adult as well as boy , is sleepless for that night , and can do nothing but wrap up its many heads , and talk of the ill - fated house , and look at it . Miss Flite has been bravely rescued from her chamber , as if it were ...
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... whole neighborhood , is almost resolved into certainty by Mrs. Snagsby's perti- nacity in that fixed gaze . His mental sufferings are so great , that he entertains wandering ideas of delivering himself up to justice , and requiring to ...
... whole neighborhood , is almost resolved into certainty by Mrs. Snagsby's perti- nacity in that fixed gaze . His mental sufferings are so great , that he entertains wandering ideas of delivering himself up to justice , and requiring to ...
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... whole thing , if I understand you , Tony ? " " You never , " returns Tony , with a most convincing steadfastness , " said a truer word in all your life . I do ! " While they were so conversing , a hackney - coach drives into the square ...
... whole thing , if I understand you , Tony ? " " You never , " returns Tony , with a most convincing steadfastness , " said a truer word in all your life . I do ! " While they were so conversing , a hackney - coach drives into the square ...
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... whole affair ; the latter with a discomfited countenance , as having entertained some lingering expectations yet . But there is nothing to be done in opposition to the Smallweed interest . Mr. Tulkinghorn's clerk comes down from his ...
... whole affair ; the latter with a discomfited countenance , as having entertained some lingering expectations yet . But there is nothing to be done in opposition to the Smallweed interest . Mr. Tulkinghorn's clerk comes down from his ...
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Allan Woodcourt asked Bagnet better Bleak House Bluffy Caddy chair Charley Chesney Wold Clifford's Inn cough court cousin cried dark daughters dear girl door Esther eyes face gentleman George give glad gone Guardian guv'ner hand happy head hear heard heart honor hope Jarndyce and Jarndyce Jellyby John Jarndyce knew Lady Dedlock Lincoln's Inn Fields Lincolnshire little woman look Mademoiselle manner mean mind Miss Flite Miss Summerson morning mother never night nothink observes old girl Phil poor Pray present replied returns the trooper Richard Rouncewell round Saint Albans Sangsby says Sir Leicester seemed shaking sits Skimpole Smallweed Snagsby Sol's Arms Somers Town speak suppose sure tell thank thing thought tion told Tom-all-Alone's Tony trouble Tulk Tulkinghorn turned Vholes Volumnia walk Weevle wery window wish word young
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Página 297 - Art in Heaven — is the light a-comin, sir ?" ' It is close at hand. HALLOWED BE THY NAME !" ' Hallowed be — thy—" The light is. come upon the dark benighted way. Dead ! Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, bora with Heavenly compassion in your hearts.
Página 296 - Jo closes his eyes, muttering, " I'm wery thankful." After watching him closely a little while, Allan puts his mouth very near his ear, and says to him in a low, distinct voice : " Jo ! Did you ever know a prayer? "
Página 70 - While I was very ill, the way in which these divisions of time became confused with one another, distressed my mind exceedingly. At once a child, an elder girl, and the little woman I had been so happy as, I was not only oppressed by cares and difficulties adapted to each station, but by the great perplexity of endlessly trying to reconcile them.
Página 312 - in my knowledge of my secret — " But he interrupts her. " Now, Lady Dedlock, this is a matter of business, and in a matter of business the ground cannot be kept too clear. It is no longer your secret. Excuse me. That is just the mistake. It is my secret, in trust for Sir Leicester and the family. If it were your secret, Lady Dedlock, we should not be here, holding this conversation.
Página 25 - Here is a small burnt patch of flooring; here is the tinder from a little bundle of burnt paper, but not so light as usual, seeming to be steeped in something; and here is - is it the cinder of a small charred and broken log of wood sprinkled with white ashes, or is it coal?
Página 132 - His further consideration of the point was prevented by Richard's coming back to us in an excited state, and hastily presenting Mr. Vholes — a sallow man with pinched lips that looked as if they were cold, a red eruption here and there upon his face, tall and thin, about fifty years of age, high-shouldered, and stooping. Dressed in black, blackgloved, and buttoned to the chin, there was nothing so remarkable in him as a lifeless manner, and a slow fixed way he had of looking at Richard. A WIDOWER...
Página 294 - Wot I wos a-thinkin.' on, then, Mr. Suagsby, wos, that when I was moved on as fur as ever I could go, and couldn't be moved no furder, whether you might be so good, p'raps, as to write out wery large so that any one could see it anywheres, as that I wos wery truly hearty sorry that I done it, and that I never went fur to do it ; and that though I didn't know nothink at all, I knowed as Mr.
Página 153 - 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. Ariewed 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 107 - I was passing quickly on, and in a few momenta should have passed the lighted window, when my echoing footsteps brought it suddenly into my mind that there was a dreadful truth in the legend of the Ghost's Walk; that it was I, who was to bring calamity upon the stately house; and that my warning feet were haunting it even then.
Página 88 - Fitz-Jarndyce?" she asked, rather sharply. I said it was not the custom in England to confer titles on men distinguished by peaceful services, however good and great ; unless occasionally, when they consisted of the accumulation of some very large amount of money. "Why, good gracious," said Miss Mite, "how can you say that?