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... soon told me all about himself . He was an organ - builder , and was holding a very good position in a great house . He had himself invented and introduced some improvements into the construction of the instruments , and though these ...
... soon told me all about himself . He was an organ - builder , and was holding a very good position in a great house . He had himself invented and introduced some improvements into the construction of the instruments , and though these ...
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... delight passed through me ? It passed soon away ; Lambert's ill - success was but little gain to me . " You say you have always been seeing her ; where , for instance ? " " In London , here , first of all ; MY ENEMY'S DAUGHTER 13.
... delight passed through me ? It passed soon away ; Lambert's ill - success was but little gain to me . " You say you have always been seeing her ; where , for instance ? " " In London , here , first of all ; MY ENEMY'S DAUGHTER 13.
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... Soon , too , I began to observe that Mrs. Lyndon watched with somewhat uneasy glances when these twain talked too closely and too long together , and that the pleasure of expatiating to an un- resisting , patient listener like myself ...
... Soon , too , I began to observe that Mrs. Lyndon watched with somewhat uneasy glances when these twain talked too closely and too long together , and that the pleasure of expatiating to an un- resisting , patient listener like myself ...
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... soon lift her quite out of the contamination of this . " " So it would , " said Lambert eagerly . He had been listening with rather a depressed air to my exordium against poverty . " The fact is , Lambert , they talk dreadful rubbish ...
... soon lift her quite out of the contamination of this . " " So it would , " said Lambert eagerly . He had been listening with rather a depressed air to my exordium against poverty . " The fact is , Lambert , they talk dreadful rubbish ...
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... soon be able to keep my wife quite like a lady - and Lilla Lyndon would look like a lady too , and take the shine out of some of the West - enders , I can tell you . " " My dear fellow , I wish you good luck and God - speed with all my ...
... soon be able to keep my wife quite like a lady - and Lilla Lyndon would look like a lady too , and take the shine out of some of the West - enders , I can tell you . " " My dear fellow , I wish you good luck and God - speed with all my ...
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Page 530 - Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the ' spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages, to soothe his mind and aid his restoration to health ; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
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Page 287 - In the course of those nights, I finished my education in a fair amateur experience of houselessness. My principal object being to get through the night, the pursuit of it brought me into sympathetic relations with people who have no other object every night in the year.
Page 288 - Some of these rambles led me to great distances; for an opium-eater is too happy to observe the motion of 'time. And sometimes, in my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical principles, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seeking ambitiously for a north-west passage, instead of circumnavigating all the capes and head-lands I had doubled in my outward voyage...
Page 225 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?