The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 Seiten |
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... shilling tea ! -only smell it sir ! " And whisking himself round , he briskly dislodged a japanned canister , and whipping off the lid , put a handful of the contents into it . The conclusion I arrived at was not a very favourable one ...
... shilling tea ! -only smell it sir ! " And whisking himself round , he briskly dislodged a japanned canister , and whipping off the lid , put a handful of the contents into it . The conclusion I arrived at was not a very favourable one ...
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... shillings a week , exclusive of extras . Still he conformed to his cheerless lot , calmly and resolutely , with a true practical stoicism that did him honour . His regular and frugal habits enabled him to subsist upon his scanty salary ...
... shillings a week , exclusive of extras . Still he conformed to his cheerless lot , calmly and resolutely , with a true practical stoicism that did him honour . His regular and frugal habits enabled him to subsist upon his scanty salary ...
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... shilling , if you can - and see if your names - or your children's are in it , ha , ha , ha ! " he concluded , with a bitter and ghastly laugh , snapping his shaking fingers at Elliott . " Get away , sir marry after this , if you dare ...
... shilling , if you can - and see if your names - or your children's are in it , ha , ha , ha ! " he concluded , with a bitter and ghastly laugh , snapping his shaking fingers at Elliott . " Get away , sir marry after this , if you dare ...
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... shilling of her father's wealth , and be joyfully content to labour for their daily bread . But a fearful array of contingencies here presented them- selves before him . Suppose they married , they would certainly have 600l . to ...
... shilling of her father's wealth , and be joyfully content to labour for their daily bread . But a fearful array of contingencies here presented them- selves before him . Suppose they married , they would certainly have 600l . to ...
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... shillings in the world , till my next quarter's salary becomes due . " " But it is sworn here -- you heard it sworn as well as I did — that the money was found there . Here are the witnesses - you may ask them any questions you think ...
... shillings in the world , till my next quarter's salary becomes due . " " But it is sworn here -- you heard it sworn as well as I did — that the money was found there . Here are the witnesses - you may ask them any questions you think ...
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler black puddings Bloomsbury Square bracelet Bullion House Carl Carl's carriage chair coach companion continued counting house dear Dick door dreadful Drysalt Ebury exclaimed eyes father fearful feelings fell fellow felt Forster gasped guineas hand head hear heard heart highwaymen Hillary's honour horse hour hurried husband inquired instantly lady length letter lips looked Lord Scamp Lord Squander lordship ma'am magistrate matter Mincing Lane mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey opened Oxleigh paused pistol poor Elliott present prisoner pugilism replied scarce scene seat seemed servant silence Sir Diggory Sir William Gwynne sitting soon stairs stood stranger suddenly sure tell thee thing thought tion tone Topknot trembling turned uttered voice wagoner walked whispered wife William Fowler words worship wretched
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Seite 349 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Seite 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Seite 349 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his Dames before: Oft listening how the Hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Seite 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Seite 115 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Seite 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.