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Ellen Pickering. THE FORTUNE HUNTER . CHARACTERS . CAPT . SEYMOUR DE HAUTEVILLE MR . GOSSIP MRS . BOND MISS CLEAVE . THE FORTUNE HUNTER . Enter Captain Seymour de Hauteville ,
Ellen Pickering. THE FORTUNE HUNTER . CHARACTERS . CAPT . SEYMOUR DE HAUTEVILLE MR . GOSSIP MRS . BOND MISS CLEAVE . THE FORTUNE HUNTER . Enter Captain Seymour de Hauteville ,
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... Miss Cleave , and Mrs. Bond . They have no beauty to be sure , that is , in their faces ; but then their pockets ! A Saracen's head looks handsome when gilt . Mrs. Bond has three thousand a year certain , they say ; and her husband ...
... Miss Cleave , and Mrs. Bond . They have no beauty to be sure , that is , in their faces ; but then their pockets ! A Saracen's head looks handsome when gilt . Mrs. Bond has three thousand a year certain , they say ; and her husband ...
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... Mrs. Bond , Miss Cleave , and Mr. Gossip . MRS . BOND . Do you know anything of that whiskered , mustachioed , dirty looking little man , who would dance with me last night at the rooms ? I did not wish the introduction , being very par ...
... Mrs. Bond , Miss Cleave , and Mr. Gossip . MRS . BOND . Do you know anything of that whiskered , mustachioed , dirty looking little man , who would dance with me last night at the rooms ? I did not wish the introduction , being very par ...
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... MISS CLEAVE . Smith ! What , that vulgar , pushing Tom Smith , that Captain Benson was talking of yesterday ? MRS . BOND . Or that horrid , vulgar Jack Smith , I think they called him , down in York- shire ? Gos . I should not wonder ...
... MISS CLEAVE . Smith ! What , that vulgar , pushing Tom Smith , that Captain Benson was talking of yesterday ? MRS . BOND . Or that horrid , vulgar Jack Smith , I think they called him , down in York- shire ? Gos . I should not wonder ...
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... MRS . BOND . It may be as well ; yet he talked of his regiment , his brother officers , and foreign service . Gos . A ... MISS CLEAVE . Oh , no ! and evaded the ques- tion when I asked him , but talked very grandly of our mess - and ...
... MRS . BOND . It may be as well ; yet he talked of his regiment , his brother officers , and foreign service . Gos . A ... MISS CLEAVE . Oh , no ! and evaded the ques- tion when I asked him , but talked very grandly of our mess - and ...
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alias Jones Aloud bailiffs Barton's farm beggar better BOND bride brother Captain Cleverly CLEV commissioners cousin dare say Dobson Doleful DOUBT DOWLAN Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FRANK Franklyn Garbett give going gone Gossip hand handsome HART hate hear heard heart heiress hurry impostor Jack Smith Jeremiah Brown Lady Lady Juliana look lovers marry MARY mind MISS CLEAVE MISS GREY MISS JOHN never NIECE Norfolk Island Pepper pettishly PLAC Placid POLICE Policeman Pooh Poor Bessy Poor dear Jemima post octavo Prattle proverb rich Ruffle Sandford Selby Seymour de Hauteville shame SILENT SIR FRED Sir Frederick Jones Sir Michael Mowbray Smith STRAN suppose sure swell mob talk tell thing thought Tilson told Tom Smiths tongue TRENCH trust UNCLE vile vulgar wealth wedding won't wait word worse Worthy WYVILL young
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Page 64 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 35 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 90 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune...
Page 18 - I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
Page 22 - He's tall and he's straight as the poplar tree, His cheeks are as fresh as the rose ; He looks like a squire of high degree When drest in his Sunday clothes.
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 :