The Merchant's Clerk: And Other TalesHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 366 Seiten |
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... persons - on such a day as this — at their own houses . There's that poor man , for in- stance , the bricklayer - he cannot leave his work ex- cept at breakfast time - I wonder how his poor child comes on ! Poor fellow , how anxious he ...
... persons - on such a day as this — at their own houses . There's that poor man , for in- stance , the bricklayer - he cannot leave his work ex- cept at breakfast time - I wonder how his poor child comes on ! Poor fellow , how anxious he ...
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... person . He was dressed in black , his coat being buttoned evi- dently for warmth's sake ; for though it was March , and the weather very bleak and bitter , there was scarce His any appearance of fire in about the smallest grate I THE ...
... person . He was dressed in black , his coat being buttoned evi- dently for warmth's sake ; for though it was March , and the weather very bleak and bitter , there was scarce His any appearance of fire in about the smallest grate I THE ...
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... person . Mr. 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 ...
... person . Mr. 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 ...
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... person to marry you to ; and , egad ! to day I've got him ; my future son - in- law , d'ye hear , and one that will clap a coronet on my pretty Molly's head ; and on the day he does so , I do two things ; I give you a plum , and myself ...
... person to marry you to ; and , egad ! to day I've got him ; my future son - in- law , d'ye hear , and one that will clap a coronet on my pretty Molly's head ; and on the day he does so , I do two things ; I give you a plum , and myself ...
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... person feeling that he could then keep Elliott's movements more dis- tinctly under his own eye , and have more frequent op- portunities of negotiating with him on behalf of Mr. Hillary . Elliott's position in the establishment was such ...
... person feeling that he could then keep Elliott's movements more dis- tinctly under his own eye , and have more frequent op- portunities of negotiating with him on behalf of Mr. Hillary . Elliott's position in the establishment was such ...
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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.