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... going to lose a fine estate and ten thousand a year for want of proper witnesses . Catch me asleep- when you can . DOUBT . But suppose your uncle should change his mind , and make another will ? I have known many dying men do this ...
... going to lose a fine estate and ten thousand a year for want of proper witnesses . Catch me asleep- when you can . DOUBT . But suppose your uncle should change his mind , and make another will ? I have known many dying men do this ...
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... going away . CLEV . I left him at his own desire , and there is the beauty of it . My mother - clever old woman my mother , she is always helping me out of a scrape - well , my mother must needs fall sick , and long of course for her ...
... going away . CLEV . I left him at his own desire , and there is the beauty of it . My mother - clever old woman my mother , she is always helping me out of a scrape - well , my mother must needs fall sick , and long of course for her ...
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... going as fast as four horses could take him . MRS . RUF . And did not he come back ? PEP . Three years after with an Italian Signora as his wife . MRS . RUF . Shocking , abominable ! There ought to be some especial punishment for such ...
... going as fast as four horses could take him . MRS . RUF . And did not he come back ? PEP . Three years after with an Italian Signora as his wife . MRS . RUF . Shocking , abominable ! There ought to be some especial punishment for such ...
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... going out . ) Fear not : all will be right . HART . Who can this stranger be ? WIFE . I do not know his name , but there was something in his look so kind , so frank , that seemed to bring again some dream of early youth , and with that ...
... going out . ) Fear not : all will be right . HART . Who can this stranger be ? WIFE . I do not know his name , but there was something in his look so kind , so frank , that seemed to bring again some dream of early youth , and with that ...
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... going towards the board as I came home . JOHN . Only some of them , I dare say ; there is plenty of time . MISS JOHN . There is no such thing , brother . How can you be such a dawdle ? The commis- sioners are sitting now , you will lose ...
... going towards the board as I came home . JOHN . Only some of them , I dare say ; there is plenty of time . MISS JOHN . There is no such thing , brother . How can you be such a dawdle ? The commis- sioners are sitting now , you will lose ...
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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 :