Our Mutual Friend, Volumes 1-2Chapman and Hall, 1865 - Deception |
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Page 1 - IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.
Page 34 - ... rattle. When he laughed, certain jerks occurred in it, and the rattle sprung. Sooth to say, he was so wooden a man that he seemed to have taken his wooden leg naturally, and rather suggested to the fanciful observer, that he might be expected — if his development received no untimely check — to be completely set up with a pair of wooden legs in about six months. Mr. Wegg was an observant person, or, as he himself said, " took a powerful sight of notice.
Page 14 - His voice was hoarse and coarse, and his face was coarse, and his stunted figure was coarse ; but he was cleaner than other boys of his type ; and his writing, though large and round, was good ; and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Page 99 - Mr. Podsnap's world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake, and of their manners and customs would conclusively observe, "Not English!
Page 39 - Mr. Boffin asked. " It would come dearer," Mr. Wegg returned. " For when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect on his mind.
Page 101 - ... platform in the centre of the table. Four silver wine-coolers, each furnished with four staring heads, each head obtrusively carrying a big silver ring in each of its ears, conveyed the sentiment up and down the table, and handed it on to the pot-bellied silver salt-cellars. All the big silver spoons and forks widened the mouths of the company expressly for the purpose of thrusting the sentiment down their throats with every morsel they ate.
Page 196 - And if you would like to know in confidence, as perhaps you may," said her husband, smiling, as he stood by her side, without her having detected his approach, " my opinion of my wife, my opinion is " But Bella started up, and put her hand upon his lips. " Stop, sir ! No, John dear ! Seriously ! Please not yet awhile ! I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.
Page 39 - Red and gold. Purple ribbon in every wollume, to keep the place where you leave off. Do you know him ? " "The book's name, sir?" inquired Silas. " I thought you might have know'd him without it,
Page 5 - ... their furniture was new, all their friends were new, all their servants were new, their plate was new, their carriage was new, their harness was new, their horses were new, their pictures were new, they themselves were new, they were as newly married as was lawfully compatible with their having a bran-new baby, and if they had set up a great-grand-father, he would have come home in matting from the Pantechnicon, without a scratch upon him, French polished to the crown of his head.
Page 167 - Peecher ; cherry-cheeked and tuneful of voice. A little pincushion, a little housewife, a little book, a little work-box, a little set of tables and weights and measures, and a little woman, all in one. She could write a little essay on any subject, exactly a slate long, beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other, and the essay should be strictly according to rule.