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... worse and worse . UNCLE . Like a stair carpet trampled on every day . NIECE , ( pettishly . ) I am sure it is you who trample on others , teasing one , day after day ; never giving a plain answer , but always making rude comparisons ...
... worse and worse . UNCLE . Like a stair carpet trampled on every day . NIECE , ( pettishly . ) I am sure it is you who trample on others , teasing one , day after day ; never giving a plain answer , but always making rude comparisons ...
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... worse , worse ! PEP . Worse , my dear Mrs. Ruffle ? worse ? Is the breakfast all spoilt ? MRS . RUF . ( pettishly . ) La , Mr. Pepper , how can you be thinking of eating when such an in- sult has been offered to my poor dear sensitive ...
... worse , worse ! PEP . Worse , my dear Mrs. Ruffle ? worse ? Is the breakfast all spoilt ? MRS . RUF . ( pettishly . ) La , Mr. Pepper , how can you be thinking of eating when such an in- sult has been offered to my poor dear sensitive ...
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... ( Aloud . ) But yesterday I thought myself the same , and yet the thought was but a liar even then to - day I know myself as what I am - a beggar , worse than beggar - debtor too . WIFE . Beggar ? Hus . Beggar , aye beggar 42 THE RETURN .
... ( Aloud . ) But yesterday I thought myself the same , and yet the thought was but a liar even then to - day I know myself as what I am - a beggar , worse than beggar - debtor too . WIFE . Beggar ? Hus . Beggar , aye beggar 42 THE RETURN .
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... worse than robber , stripping thy victim first of all he has , and then with vil- lainous affrontery , prating of law , and making fresh demands . You know full well I have no means to pay those bills . TRENCH . If you refuse to pay ...
... worse than robber , stripping thy victim first of all he has , and then with vil- lainous affrontery , prating of law , and making fresh demands . You know full well I have no means to pay those bills . TRENCH . If you refuse to pay ...
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... worse speed . " on after some difficulty . ) shoes ? " The arm - hole . ( The coat is put But where are my MISS JOHN . Never mind your shoes . Go in your slippers to Timson's , and I will send your shoes after you , and bid John run for ...
... worse speed . " on after some difficulty . ) shoes ? " The arm - hole . ( The coat is put But where are my MISS JOHN . Never mind your shoes . Go in your slippers to Timson's , and I will send your shoes after you , and bid John run for ...
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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 :