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... Sharp accompanies Miss Sedley. It is particularly requested that Miss Sharp’s stay in Russell Square may not exceed ten days. The family of distinction with whom she is engaged, desire to avail ... species; and deserved not only all that Miss Pinkerton said in her praise, but had many charming qualities which that pompous old Minerva of a woman could not see, from the differences of rank ... But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in saying, at the outset of our acquaintance, that she was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels,

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 10:20

... for once at least, her hostility to her kind. Miss Sharp’s father was an artist, and in that quality had given lessons of drawing at Miss Pinkerton’s school. He was a clever man; a pleasant ... recommending the orphan child to her protection, and so descended to the grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse. Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over ... through dialogues with it; it formed the delight of Newman Street, Gerrard Street, and the Artists’ quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-and-water with their lazy, dissolute,

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 10:20

... to remember that we are only discoursing at present about a stockbroker’s family in Russell Square, who are taking walks, or luncheon, or dinner, or talking and making love as people do in ... genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Grosvenor Square, with the very same adventures—would not some people have listened? Suppose we had shown ... and yet affect all the rest of the history? Let us then step into the coach with the Russell Square party, and be off to the Gardens. There is barely room between Jos and Miss Sharp, who are

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 10:20

... Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes. Having passed through Gaunt Square into ... in a much more distinguished circle than that humble one which she had just quitted in Russell Square. She had received her orders to join her pupils, in a note which was written upon an old ... fire, and withdrew from the pot a piece of tripe and an onion, which he divided into pretty equal portions, and of which he partook with Mrs. Tinker. “You see, Miss Sharp, when I’m not here

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 10:20

... to come to us?” said the young ladies. “Have you had a quarrel, Amelia? Do tell us!” No, indeed, there had been no quarrel. “Who could quarrel with him?” says she, with her eyes filled with ... go and fetch the truant?” So she gave him her hand kindly and gratefully: and he crossed the square; and she waited and waited, but George never came. Poor little tender heart! and so it ... know about the health of his dear Mamma), would laughingly point to the opposite side of the square, and say, “Oh, you must go to the Sedleys’ to ask for George; WE never see him from morning

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 10:20

... the company of the coachman and his pipe At Oxford, the quantity of wine was unlimited, but the quality was inferior: but when quantity and quality united as at his aunt’s house, James showed that ... him at Paris at the peace of Amiens; when he, Pitt Crawley, had the gratification of making the acquaintance of the great and good Mr Fox, a statesman whom, however much he might differ with him, ... old spinster used to wake up when these ditties ceased, and ask for more As for Briggs, and the quantity of tears of happiness which she now shed as she pretended to knit, and looked out at the

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 10:20

... at all." "Impossible!" "Listen my dear count; M de Morcerf has been my friend, or rather my acquaintance, during the last thirty years You know I have made the most of my arms, though I never ... "Because Fernand and Danglars, being both parvenus, both having become noble, both rich, are about equal in worth, excepting that there have been certain things mentioned of him that were never

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 05:20

... wolf. The dark one, quick and lively and moving as if on springs, came straight up to Zhílin, squatted down in front of him, slapped him on the shoulder, and began to talk very fast in his own ... narrow spout The Tartars washed their hands, folded them, went down on their knees, blew to the four quarters, and said their prayers After they had talked for a while, one of the guests turned to ... The Mullah and the old men came They wound clothes round their caps, took off their shoes, and squatted on their heels, side by side, near the corpse The Mullah was in front: behind him in a

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 20:20

... was hardly a quarter-past six The escape was fixed to take place at seven o'clock; there was therefore three-quarters of an hour to wait The duke, in order to pass away another quarter of an ... descent The duke followed him with his eyes, with involuntary terror He had gone down about three-quarters of the length of the wall when the cord broke Grimaud fell precipitated into the moat

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 00:20

... hand "Ha! ha!" laughed the apparition, "every gentleman seems to have the same fancy, for not a quarter of an hour ago a young lad, well mounted like you, as tall as you and of about your age, ... some inquiry about the young man who was preceding them; he had been observed to pass only three-quarters of an hour previously, but he was well mounted, as the tavern-keeper had already said,

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 00:20

... "A quarrel?" asked Athos. "And since when have you become afraid of a quarrel?" "I am always afraid of a quarrel when I am expected at any place and when such a quarrel

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 00:20

... the others. He took Manicamp with him, for his equable and dreamy disposition acted as a counterpoise to his own. It is a subject of remark, that quarrelsome and restless characters invariably

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 03:20

... alien and heterogeneous For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance So that there are instances ... Nantucketers, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously ... then decided that this was the very ship for us You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I know;- squaretoed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box galliots, and what

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 12:20

... danced up and down with a whale-pike, calling upon his officers to manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke him along to the quarter-deck At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border ... austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buckhorn handled Bowie-knives. Yet ... over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 13:20

... photograph whom we had secured, But it was not our prisoner to whom Holmes was giving his attention Squatted on the doorstep, he was engaged in most carefully examining that which the man had brought ... will come im and have some refreshment.” However, Lestrade was anxious to get his man into safe quarters, so within a few minutes our cab had been summoned and we were all four upon our way to

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle I was your equal at eighteen quite your equal Nature meant me to be, on the whole, a good man, Miss Eyre; one of the better ... brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch-- all being too close and plain, braided locks included, ... there is something singular about you," said he: "you have the air of a little nonnette; quaint, quiet, grave, and simple, as you sit with your hands before you, and your eyes generally

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER XXX RELATES WHAT OLIVER’S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM With many loquacious assurances that they would be agreeably surprised in the aspect of the criminal, the doctor ... of parents in your goodness and affection, but that I might have done so, and might have been equally helpless and unprotected with this poor child, have pity upon him before it is too late!’

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 16:15

... arrived in being allowed neighbours’ to stand opposite to Mr Darcy, and reading in her looks, their equal amazement in beholding it They stood for some time without speaking a word; and she began to ... resist the temptation, added, “When you met us there the other day, we had just been forming a new acquaintance.’ The effect was immediate A deeper shade of hauteur overspread his features, but he ... Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends—whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain.’ ‘He has been so unlucky as to lose YOUR friendship,’

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

... Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER, CONNECTED WITH WHOM VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ... could afford to throw away any drink but water—and not that, unless he done the River Company every quarter. Wot’s it all about, Fagin? D—me, if my neck-handkercher an’t lined with beer! Come in, ... Ratcliffe, she was not under the same apprehension of being recognised by any of her numerous acquaintance. Accordingly, with a clean white apron tied over her gown, and her curl- papers tucked

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 14:15

... proven to be a doddering idiot and a waster of time and effort The owl to-day is hooted at Chautauqua conventions have abandoned culture and adopted diabolo Graybeards give glowing testimonials ... laughed harshly "I'm afraid I don't see the parallel," I said, coldly "I have only a very slight acquaintance with the prize-ring." The derelict touched my sleeve with his forefinger, for emphasis,

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15