The Works of Charles Dickens, Volumes 1-2

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Hurd and Houghton, 1872 - English fiction
 

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Page 164 - That is no excuse," replied Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.'' " If the law supposes that,
Page 55 - ... danger; drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other ; and, just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard : and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle : where a...
Page 150 - I could end my days in solitude and peace. Let me see them again, and beg them on my knees to show the same mercy and goodness to you, and let us both leave this dreadful place, and far apart lead better lives, and forget how we have lived, except in prayers, and never see each other more. It is never too late to repent. They told me so — I feel it now — but we must have time — a little, little time !" The housebreaker freed one arm, and grasped his pistol.
Page 152 - ... hear its garments rustling in the leaves and every breath of wind came laden with that last low cry if he stopped it did the same if he ran it followed not running too that would have been a relief but like a corpse endowed with the mere machinery of life and borne on one slow melancholy wind that never rose or fell Exercise 57.
Page 31 - There were a good many small shops; but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were crawling in and out at the doors, or screaming from the inside. The sole places that seemed to 'prosper, amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main. Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken...
Page 62 - The mud lay thick upon the stones : and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down : and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch. It seemed just the night when it befitted such a being as the Jew, to be abroad. As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved : crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for...
Page 157 - ... of all kinds, in which to haul the water up ; and when his eye is turned from these operations to the houses themselves, his utmost astonishment will be excited by the scene before him. Crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of...
Page 31 - ... a very old shrivelled Jew, whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair.
Page 46 - You shall read them, if you behave well," said the old gentleman kindly; "and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides, — that is, in some cases; because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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