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...h he has not had opportunities of improving it. Had he ever been in the way of learning, I think he would have drawn very well. He distrusts his own j... ...d is disgusted with such pretensions, he affects greater indifference and less discrimination in viewing them himself than he possesses. He is fastidi... ...guage. But Elinor — How are her feelings to be described? — From the moment of learning that Lucy was married to another, that Edward was free, to the...

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...onours and advantages to be derived from his appoint- ment at that seat of learning, Dotheboys Hall. ‘But, what’s the matter—are you ill?’ said Nichol... ..., and commercial. We don’ t do things by halves at our shop. All manner of learning my boys take down, sir; the expense is never thought of; and they ... ...y word, Madame Mantalini, it does very ex- traordinary credit even to your discrimination that you should have found such a very excellent, very well-... ...r the last scene, and acted any kind of part on any emergency without ever learning it, and was put down in the bills under my name or names whatever,... ...t Crummles, who publicly heralded the new actor as a prodigy of genius and learning. ‘I beg your pardon,’ said Miss Snevellicci, sidling towards Nicho... ...ver to accept the order of the Garter, or a poor curate of great piety and learning, but of no family—save a very large family of children—might renou...

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...ith a rather pleas- ing but sometimes sullen expression, and very quick in learning anything, especially languages. This she showed in picking up some... ...n!” I could never myself meet with any one who pretended to such powers of discrimination. It is asserted that, if a puma has once been betrayed by th...