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... true . CLEV . Very comfortable ! They say some people are born with silver spoons in their mouths , I verily believe I was born with a golden one set with diamonds . Only think , Doubtful ! a fine estate with ten thousand a year ...
... true . CLEV . Very comfortable ! They say some people are born with silver spoons in their mouths , I verily believe I was born with a golden one set with diamonds . Only think , Doubtful ! a fine estate with ten thousand a year ...
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... true . ( Aloud . ) Im- possible , Mr. Sandford ! impossible ! I know his will was made in my favor . SAND . Hearing some report that displeased him , he burnt that will and made another . CLEV . I shall dispute this last will : the old ...
... true . ( Aloud . ) Im- possible , Mr. Sandford ! impossible ! I know his will was made in my favor . SAND . Hearing some report that displeased him , he burnt that will and made another . CLEV . I shall dispute this last will : the old ...
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... true , trusting heart I gave to you ? Hus . I have not that to give it is and has been yours , save for my brief mistrust but now , since first I called you mine . WIFE . Then what can I need more ? Have I not all in thee , and am I not ...
... true , trusting heart I gave to you ? Hus . I have not that to give it is and has been yours , save for my brief mistrust but now , since first I called you mine . WIFE . Then what can I need more ? Have I not all in thee , and am I not ...
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... True , Hartley , true : I triumph , as you say . Her tears quench not , but add fresh fuel to my hate , since they are shed for you . You thwarted , scorned , reviled me years ago , and now I pay you back with more than usurer's ...
... True , Hartley , true : I triumph , as you say . Her tears quench not , but add fresh fuel to my hate , since they are shed for you . You thwarted , scorned , reviled me years ago , and now I pay you back with more than usurer's ...
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... true there have been some distinguished men of the name , for whom one would not care to be mistaken , but the ill - natured world would be sure to saddle me with all the follies , vulgarities , and impertinences of all the Jack and Tom ...
... true there have been some distinguished men of the name , for whom one would not care to be mistaken , but the ill - natured world would be sure to saddle me with all the follies , vulgarities , and impertinences of all the Jack and Tom ...
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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 :