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Page 65
... expects to reap a richer harvest than : that he expects to marry an heiress - Mrs . Bond , or Miss Cleave . MRS . BOND . Marry me ! The man must be mad , and should be shut up . MISS CLEAVE . Marry me ! Preposterous ! He deserves to be ...
... expects to reap a richer harvest than : that he expects to marry an heiress - Mrs . Bond , or Miss Cleave . MRS . BOND . Marry me ! The man must be mad , and should be shut up . MISS CLEAVE . Marry me ! Preposterous ! He deserves to be ...
Page 66
... to their chains and watches truly - let him look to his head ! Captain of the swell mob - bid the police keep an eye on me ! To think that I should hear all this when I expected to hear them praise 66 THE FORTUNE HUNTER .
... to their chains and watches truly - let him look to his head ! Captain of the swell mob - bid the police keep an eye on me ! To think that I should hear all this when I expected to hear them praise 66 THE FORTUNE HUNTER .
Page 67
Ellen Pickering. hear all this when I expected to hear them praise me de haut en bas . Dirty , vulgar looking , little coxcomb . When I expected them to be in raptures with my tout ensemble . Not a word of ecstacy about my mustachious ...
Ellen Pickering. hear all this when I expected to hear them praise me de haut en bas . Dirty , vulgar looking , little coxcomb . When I expected them to be in raptures with my tout ensemble . Not a word of ecstacy about my mustachious ...
Page 72
... expects wealth , and Miss Grey and her friends may desire what the world calls a better match . TIL . Commend me to your modesty truly that modesty , if real , is marvellous in this self- sufficient age . A good old baronetage , with a ...
... expects wealth , and Miss Grey and her friends may desire what the world calls a better match . TIL . Commend me to your modesty truly that modesty , if real , is marvellous in this self- sufficient age . A good old baronetage , with a ...
Page 100
... expected . MR . WYVILL . You speak truth , sir , for once : you were not expected , and your absence would be preferred to your presence . What can FRANK . How so , my dear sir ? you mean ? I wrote Bessy word I should be here to - day ...
... expected . MR . WYVILL . You speak truth , sir , for once : you were not expected , and your absence would be preferred to your presence . What can FRANK . How so , my dear sir ? you mean ? I wrote Bessy word I should be here to - day ...
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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 :