The Merchant's Clerk: And Other TalesHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 366 Seiten |
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... Hillary , Hungate , and Company , Mincing Lane , in the city . He succeeded in satisfying the junior partner of this house , after submitting to a great number of humiliating inquiries in regard to his respectability and trustworthiness ...
... Hillary , Hungate , and Company , Mincing Lane , in the city . He succeeded in satisfying the junior partner of this house , after submitting to a great number of humiliating inquiries in regard to his respectability and trustworthiness ...
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... Hillary , the head of the firm , a man of very great wealth , had risen from being a mere errand boy , to his present eminence in the mercantile world , through a rare combination of good fortune and personal merit -merit , as far as ...
... Hillary , the head of the firm , a man of very great wealth , had risen from being a mere errand boy , to his present eminence in the mercantile world , through a rare combination of good fortune and personal merit -merit , as far as ...
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... Hillary's orders to the city , and especially bringing him , day by day , in a sealed envelope , his banker's book ! A harassing post this proved for poor Elliott . Severe discipline had trained his temper to bear more than most men ...
... Hillary's orders to the city , and especially bringing him , day by day , in a sealed envelope , his banker's book ! A harassing post this proved for poor Elliott . Severe discipline had trained his temper to bear more than most men ...
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... brought daily for an hour or two into each other's presence . He had little idea of the exquisite pain occasioned Miss Hillary by her father's harsh and unfeeling treatment of him , nor of the many timid 32 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK .
... brought daily for an hour or two into each other's presence . He had little idea of the exquisite pain occasioned Miss Hillary by her father's harsh and unfeeling treatment of him , nor of the many timid 32 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK .
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... Hillary , it never crossed his mind as being possi- ble that two young hearts could , by any means , when in different ranks of society , one rich , the other poor , be warmed into a feeling of regard , and even love for one another ...
... Hillary , it never crossed his mind as being possi- ble that two young hearts could , by any means , when in different ranks of society , one rich , the other poor , be warmed into a feeling of regard , and even love for one another ...
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler Bloomsbury Square bracelet Bullion House Carl Carl's carriage chair coach companion continued counting house daughter 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 PORCELLIAN CLUB 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 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Sometime walking, not unseen, By Hedge-row Elms, on Hillocks green, Right against the Eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state...
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 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 - 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 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.