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... mind , and make another will ? I have known many dying men do this . CLEV . Suppose the sky should fall we should catch larks - those that were quick enough , at least . Make another will indeed ! Why the old man was nearly at his last ...
... mind , and make another will ? I have known many dying men do this . CLEV . Suppose the sky should fall we should catch larks - those that were quick enough , at least . Make another will indeed ! Why the old man was nearly at his last ...
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... mind at rest on that score , Captain Cleverly ; such a fancy never entered my heart . DOUBT . There ! I told you before , I doubted her being attached to you . CLEV . ( piqued . ) You doubt every thing - I have no doubts on the subject ...
... mind at rest on that score , Captain Cleverly ; such a fancy never entered my heart . DOUBT . There ! I told you before , I doubted her being attached to you . CLEV . ( piqued . ) You doubt every thing - I have no doubts on the subject ...
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... mind or performing any action to secure their prey . SELBY , ( good humouredly . ) You are hard upon us lovers , sir , your fair niece , I trust , judges more 1 kindly , and will not fear to commit her happiness 24 THE UNCLE .
... mind or performing any action to secure their prey . SELBY , ( good humouredly . ) You are hard upon us lovers , sir , your fair niece , I trust , judges more 1 kindly , and will not fear to commit her happiness 24 THE UNCLE .
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... mind to try . I hate your quiet men : they always put me in a passion . Ha ! who comes with such a hurried step ? Enter Mrs. Ruffle in great agitation . MRS . RUFFLE . Oh , Mr. Pepper ! Oh , Mr. Placid ! PEP . My dear Mrs. Ruffle , what ...
... mind to try . I hate your quiet men : they always put me in a passion . Ha ! who comes with such a hurried step ? Enter Mrs. Ruffle in great agitation . MRS . RUFFLE . Oh , Mr. Pepper ! Oh , Mr. Placid ! PEP . My dear Mrs. Ruffle , what ...
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... mind's health I will not humour thee in this vain repetition ; but thou shalt read it in mine eyes , and feel it in my care . Now let me share thy grief , and by the sharing lessen it . How comes this sudden poverty ? Hus . By my own ...
... mind's health I will not humour thee in this vain repetition ; but thou shalt read it in mine eyes , and feel it in my care . Now let me share thy grief , and by the sharing lessen it . How comes this sudden poverty ? Hus . By my own ...
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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 :