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Page 7
... brother die , the Mar- quis may have the title revived in my favor . DOUBT . Are you quite sure that Lady Juliana and the Marquis have not higher views for her ladyship ? CLEV . Higher views ! They will scarcely object to THE WILL . 7.
... brother die , the Mar- quis may have the title revived in my favor . DOUBT . Are you quite sure that Lady Juliana and the Marquis have not higher views for her ladyship ? CLEV . Higher views ! They will scarcely object to THE WILL . 7.
Page 36
... brother to protect her : if my poor dear husband were but alive— ( Sobs . ) PLAC . Don't distress yourself , my dear Mrs. Ruffle ; Mr. Worthy will be here in a few mi- nutes , I dare say , and explain all to your satis- faction remember ...
... brother to protect her : if my poor dear husband were but alive— ( Sobs . ) PLAC . Don't distress yourself , my dear Mrs. Ruffle ; Mr. Worthy will be here in a few mi- nutes , I dare say , and explain all to your satis- faction remember ...
Page 51
... brother , for all men are brethren , how wilt thou stand confounded to reply — I robbed him of his birthright - freedom . TRENCH . It is the law , not I , that places him within four cold stone walls . an WIFE . Vain words ! you do but ...
... brother , for all men are brethren , how wilt thou stand confounded to reply — I robbed him of his birthright - freedom . TRENCH . It is the law , not I , that places him within four cold stone walls . an WIFE . Vain words ! you do but ...
Page 53
... us good - I feel he will . ness . HART . I would I could unlearn my late hard lessons of mistrust , and hope for kindness from my brother man as you do , Grace . Re - enter the stranger with some papers in his THE RETURN . 53.
... us good - I feel he will . ness . HART . I would I could unlearn my late hard lessons of mistrust , and hope for kindness from my brother man as you do , Grace . Re - enter the stranger with some papers in his THE RETURN . 53.
Page 64
... brother officers , and foreign service . Gos . A month or so with the militia , or yeo- manry I forget which , when they went to Ireland . Nothing more , my dear madam , I assure you . You may depend on my information , for I make it ...
... brother officers , and foreign service . Gos . A month or so with the militia , or yeo- manry I forget which , when they went to Ireland . Nothing more , my dear madam , I assure you . You may depend on my information , for I make it ...
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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 :