Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty, Volume 2Chapman & Hall, 1868 - English literature |
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Page 78 - as quickly and as often as they chose, " I hear—but I cannot say whether it be true or false—that the men who are loitering in the streets to-night are half disposed to pull down a Romish chapel or two, and that they only want leaders. I even heard mention of those in Duke-street,
Page 288 - to demean myself before them as is no better than Infidels—an't it, miss ! Ho yes ! My only becoming occupations is to help young flaunting pagins to brush and comb and titiwate theirselves into whitening and suppulchres, and leave the young men to think that there an'ta bit
Page 149 - shall never have Mr. Gashford's good word, my lord," replied John, touching his hat respectfully, "and I don't covet it." " You are an ill-conditioned, most ungrateful fellow," said Lord George : " a spy, for anything I know. Mr. Gashford is perfectly correct, as I might have felt convinced he was. I have done wrong to
Page 112 - very deliberately took the blue cockade out of his hat ; put it carefully in his pocket, ready for the next emergency ; refreshed himself with a pinch of snuff; put up his box; and was walking slowly off, when a passing carriage stopped, and a lady's hand let down the glass. Sir John's hat was
Page 133 - plucked out of the cellars, and carried off upon the shoulders of others, who strove to wake them as they went along, with ribald jokes, and left them, dead, in the passages of hospitals. But of all the howling throng not one learnt mercy from, nor sickened at, these sights ; nor was the fierce, besotted, senseless rage of one
Page 38 - young friend, for I have an interest in the lad, and desire to put him in the way of making his fortune. Bah ! you needn't speak," he added hastily ; " I know what you would say : you have hinted at it once already. Have I no feeling for you, because I am blind ? No, I have not. Why do
Page 341 - em come as late as five, six, and seven o'clock in the morning. Don't you think there's a good chance yet,—don't you ? Say you do. Say you do, young man," whined the miserable creature, with an imploring gesture towards Barnaby, " or I shall go mad ! " " Better be mad than sane, here,
Page 354 - took him from her in a reckless mood, and didn't think what harm would come of it," said Hugh, laying his hand upon his head, and speaking in a lower voice. " I ask her pardon, and his—Look here," he added roughly, in his former tone.. " You see this lad ? " They murmured
Page 365 - Mr. Willet looked first at her, then at his son, then back again at Dolly, and then made an ineffectual effort to extract a whiff" from his pipe, which had gone out long ago. " Say a word, father, if it's only ' how d'ye do ? ' " urged Joe. " Certainly, Joseph," answered Mr. Willet.
Page 159 - you do with him ? Would you hand him over to a pack of cowardly civilians, that shake in their shoes till they wear the soles out, with trembling at the threats of the ragamuffins he belongs to ? " "That's true enough." "True enough!—I'll tell you what. I wish, Tom Green, that I was a