Peregrine Pultuney; Or, Life in India, Volume 2J. Mortimer, 1844 |
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... t a saving point about it . I'm blest if it don't beat Addiscombe - beat the ship - beat every thing I've ever seen - a confounded hole , Pere- grine , without a single redeeming quality — not a 4 . PEREGRINE PULTUNEY .
... t a saving point about it . I'm blest if it don't beat Addiscombe - beat the ship - beat every thing I've ever seen - a confounded hole , Pere- grine , without a single redeeming quality — not a 4 . PEREGRINE PULTUNEY .
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... seen the pale face grow paler— the clenched hand clenched still faster - the tremb- ling frame still more tremulous , as the eye dimly wanders over the characters , every one of which is a very death - stab - the lover is , perhaps ...
... seen the pale face grow paler— the clenched hand clenched still faster - the tremb- ling frame still more tremulous , as the eye dimly wanders over the characters , every one of which is a very death - stab - the lover is , perhaps ...
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... seen , inside their bonnets , and the neatest little patent - leather shoes that ever set off a pair of pretty feet . They were , in fact , armed for conquest ; what wonder then , that poor Doleton , as he took his last longing ...
... seen , inside their bonnets , and the neatest little patent - leather shoes that ever set off a pair of pretty feet . They were , in fact , armed for conquest ; what wonder then , that poor Doleton , as he took his last longing ...
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... seen off in charge of a most sedate - looking , white - bearded old chu- prassey , who seemed to go through the thing as though he were used to it , without wasting any breath in vain attempts to make himself understood by talking ...
... seen off in charge of a most sedate - looking , white - bearded old chu- prassey , who seemed to go through the thing as though he were used to it , without wasting any breath in vain attempts to make himself understood by talking ...
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... seen him off Kedgeree , leaning over the gang- way and conversing with the natives in the dák boat , in a sort of consequential , coxcombical manner , very harmless and pardonable , however , for it im- plied nothing more than that he ...
... seen him off Kedgeree , leaning over the gang- way and conversing with the natives in the dák boat , in a sort of consequential , coxcombical manner , very harmless and pardonable , however , for it im- plied nothing more than that he ...
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