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...name. No one was able—” “That is Mademoiselle Victorine Taillefer.” I grew dizzy. “Her step-mother,” continued my neighbor, “has lately 29 Balzac tak... ...” The honest man, that species of puritan not unlike the father of Jeannie Deans, of whom I have already told you, and who, up to the present moment h...

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...She ne’er shall see his gallant train Come sweeping back through Crichtoun Dean. ’T was a brave race, before the name Of hated Bothwell stained their ... ...ecrecy She named a place to meet, Within an open balcony That hung from dizzy pitch, and high Above the stately street; To which, as common to e... ...ounded heart The hours that she might spend apart. II. I said, Tantallon’s dizzy steep Hung o’er the margin of the deep. Many a rude tower and rampart... ...re A parapet’s embattled row Did seaward round the castle go. Sometimes in dizzy steps descending, Sometimes in narrow circuit bending, Sometimes in p... ...slain on the altar stone Might bribe him for delay. It may not be!—this dizzy trance - Curse on yon base marauder’s lance, And doubly cursed my fai...

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... He knew it by every shrinking fibre in his body, he knew it by the sudden dizzy whirling of his brain, at the mere thought of that calamity. An hour ... ... seem to merit the favour of the gods. From some sense of this, and of the dizzy see-saw—heaven-high, hell-deep—on which men sit clutching; or perhaps... ...ent his shadow hovering behind him. All beyond was inscrutable; and John’s dizzy brain rocked with the shadow. Yet even so, it struck him that Alan wa... ... lay dead empty. He went to the corner of the by-road that comes by way of Dean; there also not a passenger was stirring. Plainly it was, now or never... ...re is the hilly cross- road that passes by the valley of the Leith and the Dean Cemetery; and Queensferry Street is on the way to that. What was to hi... ... date and sequel of the reminiscence. His next conscious moment was on the Dean Bridge; but whether he was John Nicholson of a bank in a Califor- nia ...

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...ust be justly entitled to the praise, when any is due, seeing that, as the Dean of St. Patrick’s wittily and logi- cally expresseth it, That without w... ...cousin,—R. V .” In the agitation of the moment, when her swimming eyes and dizzy brain could hardly comprehend the sense of what she looked upon, it i...

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...to get things done. On the vigor of his idea he was carried down the hard, dean, unused-looking hall into the bathroom. Though the house was not large... ... anything on this top shelf.” “Yeh.” 99 Sinclair Lewis “Well, be—” He was dizzy. His voice was thin and dis- tant. “Whee!” With enormous impressivene... ...-control. At last he was able to lie still, feeling only a little sick and dizzy—and enormously ashamed. To hide his “condition” from his own children...

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.... The improvising songster is missed, the convivial essayist, the humorous Dean, the travelled cynic, and he, the one of his day, the iridescent Irish... ...nby’s table, on a red-letter Sunday evening, in con- cert with him and the Dean, bring down that cataract, the Bodleian, to the levels of interchangin... ...: we stand as others do, and we will for the future be warned to avoid the dizzy stations which cry for resources beyond a common equilibrium, and whe...

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...e, at the organ, played the music she knew he liked best—old songs, “Daisy Dean,” “Lord Lovell,” “When Stars Are in the Quiet Sky,” and “Open Thy Lat-... ...day. He drove down town, trying not to hear the beat of his horses’ hoofs. Dizzy and stupefied, he gained Gretry’s office, and alone with his terrors ...

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...empty now for ever, or at most adorned with laureated ivory tablets: “Here Dizzy sat,” and “On this Spot William Ewart Gladstone made his First Budget... ...ws this story, knows it fully, adds it to the Parnell story and the Ashton Dean story and the Carmel story and the Witterslea story, and all the other...

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...opy of his Commentaries to us for our library. I have ventured to write to Dean Trench: and I am pretty sure that Mr. Keble will send me his “Life of ... ...I don’t say that I have come off uninjured. In Melbourne I was told by the Dean (the Bishop is in England) and by Judge Pohlman (an excellent good man... ... words of truth. ‘The effect at the time was no doubt very remarkable. The Dean of Melbourne, e.g., said publicly that no such earnest- ness in religi... ...your name through good Miss Rennell, whom I dare say you remember: the old Dean’s daughter. What a joy this would have been to dear Mr. and Mrs. Keble... ...e disliked in particular, and he answered, Everything. That he always felt dizzy, headachy, and unable to read with comfort; the food was greasy, and ...

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...er, back and forth, like a spectator at a ping-pong match. She almost felt dizzy for her. She reached across and pat the younger woman's free hand. "Y... ...d of guys do you like?" Amire shrugged. "You know. Guys like, um ... James Dean, Brando—" "White guys?" "No, silly. Just ... you know ... just dangero... ...ad Kelly's mood. "If you don't sit down and relax, you're going to make me dizzy." Kelly feebly smiled, went to the sofa and sat down facing Amire ens...

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...ny of his actions towards others matter? Everyone came and left him. He was dizzy on a merry-go-round. "You must all eat," said Sung Ki as he poured ... ...t the university." He paused and then filled in the silence. "My cousin is a dean in the mathematics department. I work part-time at Yongsei as his re... ... am a happy solipsistic person I might well believe in God and appreciate my dizzying blessings but in doing this I'd be guilty of saying that this go... ...s getting worse. Yang Kwam was wearing a shirt with the American flag on it. Dizzy and disoriented, Sang Huin had followed that American flag in subwa... ...ee. They began to twirl each other around and the two of them fell down like dizzy drunks. As she sat up she noticed that her son was staring directly... ... who refused to leave the amusement park for fear of no longer having such a dizzy perspective of it all. She could become a bit religious (anything f...

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...poured out Libations, to thy memory drank, till pride 300 And gratitude grew dizzy in a brain Never excited by the fumes of wine Before that hour, or ... ...y hang on days begun And ended with such mockery. Be wise, Ye Presidents and Deans, and, till the spirit Of ancient times revive, and youth be trained... ...lass Of marvels, broad day wonders permanent: The River proudly bridged; the dizzy top And Whispering Gallery of St. Paul’s; the tombs 130 Of Westmins...

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...n of salt turned into a mountain of gold, so to speak, so suddenly and to so dizzy a height had the war news sent up the price of the article. The vas... ...me ago, was an occa sional loafing place of that erratic genius, Henry Clay Dean. I believe I never saw him but once; but he was much talked of when ... ...s late distinguished citizen, Mr. Claggett, gave me this incident concerning Dean— The war feeling was running high in Keokuk (in ’61), and a great ma... ... indig nant and rebellious. About this time a distressed manager discovered Dean on a curb stone, explained the dilemma to him, took his book away fr... ...s pect was familiar to hardly a dozen persons present. It was the scarecrow Dean—in foxy shoes, down at the heels; socks of odd colors, also ‘down;’ ... ...ne of cheers, through a thrashing snowstorm of waving handker chiefs. “When Dean came,” said Claggett, “the people thought he was an escaped lunatic;... ...a once first class hotel perched far among the cloud shadows that mottle its dizzy heights—sole remnant of once flourishing Mount V ernon, town of ear... ...that of a cone, cause the spectator to wonder at nature’s workings. From its dizzy heights su perb views of the forests, streams, bluffs, hills and d...

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...uch as Metcalf’s, and Reed and Kellogg’s; and I smiled as I saw a copy of “The Dean’s English.” I could not reconcile these books with the man from wh... ... moments, starting from a windward roll, I would go flying through the air with dizzying swiftness, as though I clung to the end of a huge, inverted pe... ...ot skyward. It seemed impossible that it could continue to live, yet with each dizzying sweep it did achieve the impossible. A rain squall drove past,... ...u. We of the East have seen so very little of you — too little, indeed, of the Dean of American Letters, the Second.” I bowed to, and disclaimed, the ... ...sion to cry out,” I said defiantly. “I hardly think you’ll care to sacrifice the Dean of American Letters the Sec ond,” he sneered. We spoke no more, t... ...r equilibrium. “I really must sit down,” Maud said, with a nervous laugh and a dizzy gesture, and forthwith she sat down on the sand. I attended to ma... ...ime unafraid. In the very heart of the herd the din was terrific. It was almost dizzying in its effect. I paused and smiled reassuringly at Maud, for I... ...her up the companionway. The pure air was like nectar. Maud was only faint and dizzy, and I left her lying on the deck when I took my second plunge be...

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... I ascended this ugly path with some difficulty although on foot, and felt dizzy when I observed, from such traces as the rains had not obliterated, t... ...comparison save a mere form, are to take place, by order of the Honourable Dean of Faculty, on Wednesday first; and on Friday he puts on the gown, and... ...e fresh summons accordingly, and came back to inform Mr. Fairford that the Dean of Faculty was below, inquiring for Mr. Alan. ‘Will I set him down to ... ...oo?’ said James. ‘Will you be an idiot, sir?’ said Mr. Fairford. ‘Show Mr. Dean into the parlour.’ In going slowly downstairs, step by step, the perpl... ...eed that takes my young friend away at this moment,’ said the good-natured dean. ‘I wish he had stayed to finish his pleading, and put down old Tough.... ... the law.’ ‘Well, well, Mr. Fairford, you know best,’ answered the learned dean; ‘if there be death or marriage in the case, a will or a wedding is to...

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... more—calm it had always been, reminding me of the de- scription of Jeanie Deans’ countenance—I cannot tell you what it was then! I see a little dawni... ...n charge to one of the men when he found his strength failing. She was too dizzy and trembling to make out the pencil, and gave it to me to read to he...

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...h contributed sev- eral hints to the description in the text. The House of Dean, near Edinburgh, has also some points of resemblance with T ully-Veola... ...lose imprison- ment. By his side was Evan Maccombich. Edward felt sick and dizzy as he gazed on them; but he was recalled to himself as the Clerk of t...

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...s annoy—not swifter wheel The flashes of its torture and unrest Out of the dizzy eyes—than Maia’s son _55 All that he di... ... friends—who come after I mean, As I ne’er wore a cassock, or dined with a dean. _60 Or like cobblers at mending I never did try, ... ...overns all. _50 Swelled with command and mad with dizzying sway; Who sees unmoved his myriads fade away. Careless who lives o...

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...in- cipled female, whom, in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, I have termed Jeanie Deans. The circumstance of her refusing to save her sister’s life by an act... ...believe—at least some relative— of the famous Covenanter of the name, whom Dean Swift’s friend, Captain Creichton, shot on his own staircase in the 7... ...mes of society ap- proach much more closely to each other than perhaps the Dean of Saint Patrick’s expected. The savage is always to a certain degree ... ...ing the most dangerous paths. The precarious track through the morass, the dizzy path along the edge of the precipice or by the banks of the gulfing r...

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...expiring quickly in his ha- bitual moroseness. I was sick exceedingly, and dizzy, and faint; and thus com- pelled perforce to accept lodgings under hi... ...information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean, when she brought in supper, to sit down while I ate it; hoping sincer... ...ly indigenae will not recognise for kin.’ With this intention I asked Mrs. Dean why Heathcliff let Thrushcross Grange, and preferred living in a situa... ...t wonder! And how did you like the master?’ ‘ A rough fellow, rather, Mrs. Dean. Is not that his character? ‘Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinston... ...ll this par- ish that does not guess how he has been cheated.’ ‘Well, Mrs. Dean, it will be a charitable deed to tell me something of my neighbours: I... ... moving from the hearth, and I was very far from nodding. ‘Sit still, Mrs. Dean,’ I cried; ‘do sit still another half-hour. You’ve done just right to ...

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... that this has come on me.—Ho, Marmion! carry these tidings from me to the Dean; pray him that the knell be tolled at the Minster, and a requiem sung ... ..., let me speak of my bliss!’ and he snatched at her hand, but was still so dizzy that he sank back, becoming aware that he was stiff and bruised from ... ... till he is removed. King Henry V . left his friends and foes alike almost dizzy, as in place of his grand figure they found a blank; instead of the h... ...ce and furious exclamations, and the Abbess’s attempts at con- soling him. Dizzy with horror at the scene he realized, Lilias’s cries and shrieks of e...

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...ng all human laws and causing irreparable evil, threw her into a dazed and dizzy condition, which amounted some- times to a species of inward delirium... ...their minds a figure to be compared (though in another sense) with Jeannie Deans, whose piety, grace, 60 The Village Rector modesty and beauty she po...

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..., and a remarkable command of the Queen’s English, to become such another as Dean Swift; a kind of leering, human goat, leaping and wagging your scut ... ...he can swallow no longer. And for all these rea- sons-although I had a fine, dizzy, muddle-headed joy in my surroundings, and longed, and tried, and a...

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... cried Long Jack, who had been casting round in search of amusement. “I’ d dean forgot we’ d a passenger under that T-wharf hat. There’ s no idleness ... ...cross the surges, and the streaming line of bubbles overside made his eyes dizzy . Disko kept them busy fiddling with the sails; and when those were f...

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...d will appear the more manifest.” “I have heard, however, madam,” said the Dean of St. Asaph’s, an eminent Puritan, “that these players are wont, in t... ...py government as may countervail what has been spoken by his reverence the Dean of St. Asaph’s. There are some lines, for example—I would my nephew, ... ...ed but a rough nurse for so tender a babe.” “My Lord of Hunsdon,” said the Dean of St. Asaph—”I speak it not in defamation of his more noble qualities... ...h of profaneness and of old Papistrie.” “It is the fault of his blood, Mr. Dean,” said the Queen, turning sharply round upon the reverend dignitary as... ...eath me the abyss into which I must fall, as soon as my relaxing grasp and dizzy brain join to hurl me from my present precarious stance.” “Think bett...

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...ich is certainly not without its due weight. A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resi- dent prebendaries, and all their n... ...d to be the man for the time. He was then elevated for the mo- ment to the dizzy pinnacle of a newspaper hero, and be- came one of those ‘whom the kin... ...stocracy of Barchester consisted chiefly of clerical dignitaries, bishops, deans, prebendaries, and such like: on them and theirs it was not probable ... ...Oriel. Mrs Grantly came with him, and so did Mrs Grantly’s sister, the new dean’s wife. The dean himself was at the time unfor- tunately absent at Oxf...

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...and the lights, the flowers, the people and their greet- ings, were like a dizzy mist. The space before dinner was happily but brief, and then, as las... ...e of illness, the insur- mountable dread of the mere physical fatigue. The Dean of Avoncester, a kind old friend of Mrs. Curtis, had in- sisted on the... ... Curtis, had in- sisted on the mother and daughters coming to sleep at the Deanery, on the T uesday night, and remaining till the day after the trial;... ... of the Family formality of a visit. Lady Temple was likewise asked to the Deanery, but Conrade was still too ill for her to think of leaving him for ... ...ster could not fail to act as restoratives, and the first evening with the Dean and his gentle old sister was refreshing and comfortable to her spirit... ..., and Alison Williams, sitting between Lady Temple and Colonel Keith, felt dizzy with anxiety for the answer. It came at last. “I do not remember the ... ...he night.” —The Beleaguered City, Longfellow A DINNER PARTY at the Deanery in the sessions week was an institution, but Rachel, lying on the s... ...know that I could sit out a dinner! A number of people together make me so dizzy and confused.” “Poor child!” said Miss Wellwood, kindly, but looking ...

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...ad found An unknown barren beach for burial ground. And as he gazed, his dizzy brain spun fast, And down he sunk; and as he sunk, the sand S... ...ced most foes. He knew not where he was, nor greatly cared, For he was dizzy, busy, and his veins Fill’d as with lightning — for his spirit sh... ... ‘ll say nothing of affairs of state); A difference ‘’twixt a bishop and a dean, ’ A difference between crockery ware and plate, As between En...

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...t carriage came by, with some very grand people in it; we think it was the Dean; and they looked down the lane and stared, so sur- prised to see what ... ...easant to so quiet a personage. ‘Don’t!’ she cried. ‘You hurt! You make me dizzy!’ ‘My certie, Miss Mysie!’ exclaimed Mrs. Halfpenny at the same time,...

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...him. And the Robartses know more of them than anybody.’ ‘They say that the dean is his great friend.’ ‘What a pity it is that the Arabins should be aw... ...ad ever been respected as a clergyman, since his old friend Mr Arabin, the dean of Barchester, had given him the small incumbency which he now held. T... ...roceed to Cambridge, and be educated there at the expense of his godfather Dean Arabin. In this also the world saw a stroke of good luck. But then not... ...lothes fit either for school or for col- 9 Anthony Trollope lege? But the dean and Mrs Crawley between them managed this, leaving Mr Crawley very muc... ...ld both of Silverbridge and Hogglestock. To a great many it was known that Dean Arabin had paid money for him, very much contrary to his own consent, ... ... remain together, it cannot sur- prise us that her eyes should have become dizzy, and that she should not have counted the minutes with accurate corre...

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...and, when he has raised himself some- what above the crowd, becomes sooner dizzy with his own altitude. An American of mark, though always anx- ious t... ...s, and no common rooms. There are no proctors, no bulldogs, no bursers, no deans, no morning and evening chapel, no quads, no surplices, no caps and g...

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...st likely to be useful.” “Thank you,” said Johnny, and therewith he turned dizzy, and reeled against the wall. “It is nothing—nothing,” he said, as th... ...ied once more to master the contents of Miss Ray’s letter, but she was too dizzy; and when Janet came in, she could only hold it out to her. “Oh!” sai... ...onella, but made her approaches warily. “What have you there?” she asked. “Dean Church’s lectures,” he said. “Ah! I want to make time to read them! Bu...

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...of Man; in all saloons, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position solicit... ...ranklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane some- what earlier: Franklin remained till 1785.) the sons of the Sax... ... it ad- dress itself, this sincere attachment?” inquires Mirabeau. “To the Dean of the Tiers-Etat.”—”There is no man in France en- titled to write tha... ...e at last on their own strength getting under way? Instead of Chairman, or Dean, they have now got a President: Astronomer Bailly. Under way, with a v... ...orld Topsyturvied! Having seen the Human Species itself, to have seen the ‘Dean of the Human Species, ’ ceased now to be a miracle. Such ‘Doyen du Gen... ...aking their dirk and muff, may dance through the brain of a Marat, in this dizzy pealing of tocsin- miserere, and universal frenzy, seek not to guess,...

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............................................... ................. 135 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ................................................................. ... money back on those two operas. What Is Man and Other Essays 148 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS IS IT TRUE THAT THE SUN of a man’s mentality touches noon... ... to make sure of what it meant, because they would have been surprised and dizzy. It would have been too late to be valuable, then, and the bill for s...

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...strong beer, and such subjects, martial and bacchic, whirled through their dizzy brains at a railroad pace. And now, if there had been a couple of exp... ...itre to Mr. Alexander Pope, Doctor Sacheverel, Sir John Reade the oculist, Dean Swift, or Marshal Tallard; as the very commonest romancer would un- de... ...ll here!” or, “Tell Cuttriss to give us a bottle of the yellow seal!” or, “Dizzy voo, Monsure Borrel, noo donny shampang frappy,” etc. He always makes...

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...bitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills An... ...it where, Unvisited by tempest or by sun, Immortal ladies tread the ground Dizzy with harmonious sound, Semele’s lad a gay companion. And yonder in th... ...spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair; That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there. Swift beating on his breast ... ...med upon Oisin’s name, 372 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS And now I am dizzy with the thought Of all that wisdom and the fame Of battles broken by...

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...Sir Richard, when you ought to be in seebles?” 11 Burlesques “Who’s dead, Dean?” said the nobleman, the dean’s com- panion. “Faix, mee Lard Bolingbro... ...he Spectator are sold since the death of the brave old gentleman.” And the Dean of St. Patrick’s pulled out the Spectator newspaper, contain- ing the ... ... all been giving me the credit.” “The rascal foiled me at capping verses,” Dean Swift said, “and won a tenpenny piece of me, plague take him!” “He has... ...ull kerear of Fortn, prawsprus but not hover prowd of my prawsperraty; not dizzy though mounted on the haypix of Good Luck—feasting hall the great (li... ...the feelings of her bridegroom. The bishop got up; and directly he rose, a dean, who was sleeping under a large slate near him, came bowing and cring-... ...howled, and vanished—the fat bishop waddled back under his brass plate—the dean flounced down into his family vault—and the canon Schidnischmidt, who ...

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.... That was a very seasonable pamphlet of his on the Catholic Ques- tion:—a deanery at least. They owe him a deanery.” And here I must vindicate a clai... ...nt already, but that stomach fever took him off: else he might have been a dean by this time. I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred. ... ...while a sense of returning upon itself in a way that might make weak heads dizzy. But a slight infusion of Mr. Bambridge was felt to give tone and cha... ...d uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim- sighted. Becoming a dean or even a bishop would make little difference, I fear, to Mr. Casaubon...

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...on. That was a very seasonable pamphlet of his on the Catholic Question:—a deanery at least. They owe him a deanery.” And here I must vindicate a clai... ...nt already, but that stomach fever took him off: else he might have been a dean by this time. I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred. I... ...while a sense of returning upon itself in a way that might make weak heads dizzy. But a slight infusion of Mr. Bambridge was felt to give tone and cha... ...nd uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim sighted. Becoming a dean or even a bishop would make little difference, I fear, to Mr. Casaubon...