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beggar believe better Bond brother CHARACTERS child Clev Cleverly coat comes course dare say dear Doubt Enter expected eyes fears feel fortune FRANK Franklyn Fred give going gone half hand Hart hate head hear heard heart heiress hold hour hurry Jemima Jeremiah Brown Jones keep kind knew Lady late leave look lovers marry Mary matter mean meet mind minute Miss CLEAVE Miss Grey Miss John morning Mowbray never Niece night once Pepper police poor Poor Bessy poor dear Prattle proverb reading rich Ruffle seemed Selby shame SILENT Sir Frederick Smith stand suppose sure talk tell thing thought thousand told tongue Trench true trust truth turn UNCLE vulgar wait wealth Wife wish wonder worse Worthy wrong Wyvill young
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Page 64 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Page 87 - What, John, not gone yet ? I thought you were to meet the Commissioners at twelve ? " To which, by some instinct of memory, I replied without thinking, " Yes. But it has not struck yet." JOAN : " But you know it's half an hour's walk to the Guildhall. " DAUPHIN :
Bibliographic information
| Title | Proverbs for Acting |
| Author | Ellen Pickering |
| Publisher | T.C. Newby, 1844 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 121 pages |
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