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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...the reader little, perhaps, to know, how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ... upon the desk, and was re- lieving himself as usual with a burst of skel- etons, said he didn t care. Mr. Mell was ill-used. Who has ill-used him, y... ...er I need not recall when. And how do you get on, and where are you being educated, Brooks? said Mr. Quinion. He had put his hand upon my shoulder, ... .... Murdstone. He is at home at present, said the latter. He is not being educated anywhere. I don t know what to do with him. He is a difficult subj... ...of punch with an air of great enjoyment and satisfaction, and whistled the College Hornpipe. I did not fail to assure him that I would store these pre... ...le tune on his chin as he walked on, with the two forefingers of his skel- eton right hand, he added: There are expressions, you see, Master Copperfi...

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...OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual Fri... ...per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... the strong tide met with an impedi- ment, his gaze paused for an instant. At every mooring-chain and rope, at every stationery boat or barge that spl... ...ncies. Chapter 2 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE MR AND MRS VENEERING were bran-new people in a bran- new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything abo... ... eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. The Heralds’ College found out a Crusading ancestor for V e- neering who bore a camel on... ...o was inveigled by Lady Tippins (a friend of his boyhood) to come to these people’s and talk, and who won’t talk. Reflects Eugene, friend of Mortimer;... ...they wouldn’t, to the man from Somewhere. Being a boy of fourteen, cheaply educated at Brussels when his sister’ s expul- sion befell, it was some lit... ...m, and readily received the Boffins. He was quite a young man, expensively educated and wretch- edly paid, with quite a young wife and half a dozen qu... ...ul drawback which has told upon my heart, and almost equally upon my skel- eton), and I mean to live by my calling. Putting the same meaning into othe...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...hem, the ascending Night came up the mountain like a rising water. When it at last rose to the walls of the convent of the Great Saint Bernard, it was... ...a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. Blackened skel- eton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent as if the gh... ... is very important.’ Again Monsieur was right. The dog was very important. People were justly interested in the dog. As one of the dogs celebrated eve... ...t a beautiful sacrifice? What do we want more to touch us? Because rescued people of interesting appearance are not, for eight or nine months out of e... ...er’s. Being a remarkably fine woman with no bigodd nonsense about her—well educated, too—she was too many for this chap. Regularly pocketed him.’ ‘If ... ...ot very intimate with her; and Little Dorrit, as an enforced sizar of that college, was obliged to submit herself humbly to its ordinances. Neverthele... ...ear-tree formerly growing in a garden near the back of his dame’s house at Eton, upon which pear-tree the only joke of his life perennially bloomed. I... ...t have been acquired, for Mr F. himself said frequently that although well educated in the neighbourhood of Blackheath at as high as eighty guineas wh...

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...nd fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing t...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens SPEECH: EDINBURGH, JUNE 25, 1841. At a public dinner, given in honour of Mr. Dickens, and pre sided over by... ...out a thrill of gratitude and pleasure. I shall love while I have life her people, her hills, and her houses, and even the very stones of her streets.... ...—to ap peal as a stranger to your generosity and kindness as the fre est people on the earth—I could, putting some restraint upon myself, stand amon... ...ire to see in every town in England. Next, I be lieve, is the Spring Hill College, a learned institution be longing to the body of Independents, for... ... and gentlemen, this is the whole design. There are foundation scholars at Eton, foundation scholars at nearly all our old schools, and if the public,... ...ee stands the name of that eminent scholar and gentle man, the Provost of Eton. Y ou justly admire this liberal spirit, and your admiration—which I c... ...ss, a quiet modesty, and a truly Chris tian spirit; and they had all been educated in one school— Harvard University. Gentlemen, nothing was more rem... ...nces? Now, let us suppose a few. Suppose that your institution should have educated those who are now its teachers. That would be a very remarkable fa...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... Sancho Panza; but I know that my first impressions of them were picked up at that time, and that they were somehow or other connected with a suppurat... ...If I were to attempt to sum up the thousands of letters, from all sorts of people in all sorts of latitudes and climates, which this unlucky paragraph... ...re attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a q... ...ther people’ s. What is your daughter fit for, ma’am?’ ‘Kate has been well educated,’ sobbed Mrs Nickleby. ‘T ell your uncle, my dear, how far you wen... ...were conjuring up before him. ‘Or suppose some young nobleman who is being educated at the Hall, were to take a fancy to me, and get his father to app... ...ject to my youth, and to my not being a Master of Arts?’ ‘The absence of a college degree is an objection,’ replied Squeers, looking as grave as he co... ...ly as it could, under such adverse circum- stances. So the day wore on. At Eton Slocomb there was a good coach dinner, of which the box, the four fron... ... before you were born,—I have often heard them say , that the young men at college are uncommonly particular about their night- caps, and that the Oxf...