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Pagina 9
... answer is given at once , that al- most everybody in the Temple was out of town , and that there was scarcely a single occupant of Pen's house in Lamb Court except those who were engaged round the sick - bed of the sick gentleman ...
... answer is given at once , that al- most everybody in the Temple was out of town , and that there was scarcely a single occupant of Pen's house in Lamb Court except those who were engaged round the sick - bed of the sick gentleman ...
Pagina 14
... answered in a tremulous , though cheery voice it was curious how emotion seemed to olden him and returning Warrington's pressure with a shaking hand , told him the news of Arthur's happy crisis , of his mother's arrival — with her young ...
... answered in a tremulous , though cheery voice it was curious how emotion seemed to olden him and returning Warrington's pressure with a shaking hand , told him the news of Arthur's happy crisis , of his mother's arrival — with her young ...
Pagina 35
... answer during Arthur's weakened and incapa- ble condition . Perhaps Mrs. Pendennis was laudably desirous to have some explanations about the dreadful Fanny Bolton mystery , regarding which she had never breathed a word to her son ...
... answer during Arthur's weakened and incapa- ble condition . Perhaps Mrs. Pendennis was laudably desirous to have some explanations about the dreadful Fanny Bolton mystery , regarding which she had never breathed a word to her son ...
Pagina 54
... answered . " I said I would tell you about it some day , Pen ; and will , but not now . Take the moral without the fable now , Pen , my boy : and if you want to see a man whose whole life has been wrecked , by an unlucky rock against ...
... answered . " I said I would tell you about it some day , Pen ; and will , but not now . Take the moral without the fable now , Pen , my boy : and if you want to see a man whose whole life has been wrecked , by an unlucky rock against ...
Pagina 56
... answer any inquiries ; his maxim being that he only knew gentlemen who frequented that room , in that room ; that when they quitted that room , having paid their scores as gentlemen , and behaved as gen- tlemen , his communication with ...
... answer any inquiries ; his maxim being that he only knew gentlemen who frequented that room , in that room ; that when they quitted that room , having paid their scores as gentlemen , and behaved as gen- tlemen , his communication with ...
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ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet begad Begum bless blush Bonner Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain carriage chambers Chatteris Clavering Arms Clavering family Colonel confounded Costigan creature cried dammy dear dearest dev'lish dinner door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny Bolton fellow Foker fortune George girl give good-humor Grosvenor Place hand happy heart Helen honor Huxter kind kissed knew Lady Clavering Lady Rockminster ladyship laugh Laura letter Lightfoot 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 pretty Rosenbad secret Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering smile speak Strong talk tell thing thought told took Tunbridge uncle valet voice walked Warrington Wheel of Fortune widow wife wish woman word YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young lady
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Pagina 166 - ... 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...
Pagina 165 - ... 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.
Pagina 166 - 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...