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Popular passages
Page 52 - the Dinners get better. We drew Lots, and it Fell to me. I knew you would Aprove, for I heard you once say, about Captain Shurker, that it wasn't honourable to Back Out. I have my Second-best suit, some linen, my Bible, and Latin Delectus, and a Sum of Money which is the
Page 42 - you don't like to speak to Mrs. Glumper, would you mind asking mamma and Agnes, with my love, to send me a big loaf of bread (with crust, and, if possible, browned) that might last a week ? "Lieut.-Gen. Trelawny, CB, KH, "Penrhyn Court.
Page 52 - but Isn't, as usual. I hoped you would have written to Mrs. Glumper, but perhaps you were Afrade. We held a Counsel, and Settled to run away One by
Page 52 - hope you are quite well. We ate up the Pie and other Things you so kindly sent, and then began Starving again. Rice, and Catterpillars, and what they call
Page 42 - not greedy, and not so foolish as to expect at school such jolly things as at home. So you must not be angry when I say what
Page 42 - say, that we can't eat what Mrs. Glumper says is dinner; and as there's nothing else but slop and a bit of bread, everybody's
Page 53 - I hope you won't be angry and kiss Mama and my love to Agnes and I am your Afectionate Dutiful Son, " CS TRELAWNY.
Page 239 - which her lord—a man of iron, resolved, unmalleable, self-indulgent—lavished all his love and care. Nothing could exceed the solicitude with which he watched the fluctuations of her disorder, and assembled round her every imaginable object calculated to distract the pains, or tranquillise the mind of his beloved patient. The physician, Dr. T , came down
Page 256 - would have left the house, but nothing could induce Mary to consent. His uncle would be vexed; would think them careless, ungrateful— besides, they had no other home. Most of all she earnestly desired, if die she must, to breathe her last in the Angel-chamber, with those glorious eyes and protecting arms above her.
Page 240 - who had already, as he confessed to his wife, experienced some slight twinges of conscience on the score of receiving a daily fee for his needless visits, was stopped by the colonel as he crossed the hall, and invited to remain and partake of the dinner at that moment about to be served.