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...gs by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CAR... ...your bended knees. My dear, you never have found Number Eighty-one Nor- 4 Mrs. Lirriper’ s Lodgings folk Street Strand advertised in Bradshaw’s Railw... ...e of being proved on oath in a court of justice and taking the form of “If Mrs. Lirriper names eighteen shillings a week, I name fifteen and six,” it ... ...the Furnished bill was up) being pre- sented by the gentlemen engraved “To Mrs. Lirriper a mark of grateful respect for her honourable conduct” gave m... ...tley which at that time had the parlours and loved his joke says “Cheer up Mrs. Lirriper, you should feel as if it was only your christening and they ... ... second floor that would have taken it down from its hook and put it in 6 Mrs. Lirriper’ s Lodgings his breast-pocket—you understand my dear—for the ... ...little irritable and use of a sitting-room when required, his words being “Mrs. Lirriper I have arrived at the point of admitting that the Black is a ...

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Excerpt: Mrs. Lirriper?s Legacy by Charles Dickens.

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...cy by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES H... ... London situated midway between the City and St. James’s—if anything is 4 Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy where it used to be with these hotels calling themse... ...has ever had kept from him the cruel story of his poor pretty young mother Mrs. Edson being deserted in the second floor and dying in my arms, fully b... ...rything upside down by Act of Parliament. As please Heaven will come to 6 Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy pass when Jemmy takes to that as a profession! Menti... ...d have been words betwixt the Major and me. Therefore my dear though he 8 Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy played on Mr. Buffle by mistake being hot in his hea... ...s point him out sir.” Mr. Buffle stares at the Major and then nods at me. “Mrs. Lirriper sir” says the Major going off into a perfect steam and introd... ... a sort of obsti- nate fury “presents to you his esteemed friend that lady Mrs. Emma Lirriper of Eighty-one Norfolk Street Strand London in the County...

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...by Anthony T ro llope A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mrs. General Talboys by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mrs. General Talboys by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Anthony Trollope Mrs. General Talboys by Anthony Trollope W hy Mrs. General Talboys first ma... ...been imputed to the lady. The General, as all the world knows, is hot; and Mrs. Talboys, when the sweet rivers of her enthusiasm are unfed by congenia... ...ieve, make herself disagreeable. But be this as it may, in November, 1859, Mrs. Talboys came among us English at Rome, and soon succeeded in obtaining... ...ge enough, with good teeth, a white forehead, a dimpled chin and a full 4 Mrs. General Talboys bust. Such, outwardly, was Mrs. General Talboys. The d... ...go the former, and women the latter. They are ambition and enthusiasm. Now Mrs. Talboys was an enthusiastic woman. As to ambition, generally as the wo... ...siasm of another woman is never very palatable. We understood at Home that Mrs. Talboys had a consid- erable family,—four or five children, we were to... ...omed. I have since become aware that nothing can be more decorous than old Mrs. Upton, the excellent head-nurse at Hardover Lodge; and no gentle- man ...