Our Mutual FriendMacmillan and Company, 1907 - 788 pages |
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Page 495 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Page 126 - Mr. Podsnap explained, with a sense of meritorious proprietorship, " to Our Constitution, Sir. We Englishmen are Very Proud of our Constitution, Sir. It Was Bestowed Upon Us By Providence. No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country.
Page 126 - Horse," said Mr Podsnap, with forbearance. " In England, Angleterre, England, We Aspirate the ' H,' and We Say ' Horse.' Only our Lower Classes Say ' Orse ! ' " " Pardon," said the foreign gentleman ; "I am alwiz wrong ! " " Our Language," said Mr Podsnap, with a gracious consciousness of being always right, "is Difficult. Ours is a Copious Language, and Trying to Strangers I will not Pursue my Question.
Page 107 - As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners ; have Shares. Have Shares enough to be on Boards of Direction in capital letters, oscillate on mysterious business between London and Paris, and be great. Where does he come from ? Shares. Where is he going to ? Shares. What are his tastes ? Shares. Has he any principles ? Shares. What squeezes him...
Page 660 - As he bent his face to hers, she raised hers to meet it, and laid her little right hand on his eyes, and kept it there. " Do you remember, John, on the day we were married, Pa's speaking of the ships that might be sailing towards us from the unknown seas 1 " " Perfectly, my darling ! " " I think . . . among them . . . there is a ship upon the ocean . . . bringing ... to you and me ... a little baby, John.
Page 583 - The mercenary young person distantly related to myself," said her good father, " did well ! The mercenary young person distantly related to myself did not trust to me in vain ! I admire this mercenary young person distantly related to myself, more in this dress than if she had come to me in China silks, Cashmere shawls, and Golconda diamonds. I love this young person dearly. I say to the man of this young person's heart, out of my heart and with all of it, ' My blessing on this engagement betwixt...
Page 54 - Mr. Wegg thus came out of his disadvantage with quite a chivalrous air, and not only that, but by dint of repeating with a manly delicacy, "In Mrs. Boffin's presence, sir, we had better drop it!
Page 107 - ... the one thing to have to do with in this world. Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares. Have Shares enough to be on Boards of Direction in capital letters, oscillate on mysterious business between London and Paris, and be great. Where does he come from? Shares. Where is he going to? Shares. What are his tastes? Shares. Has he any principles? Shares. What squeezes him into Parliament? Shares. Perhaps he never of himself achieved success...
Page 107 - Paris, and be great. Where does he come from? Shares. Where is he going to? Shares. What are his tastes? Shares. Has he any principles? Shares. What squeezes him into Parliament? Shares. Perhaps he never of himself achieved success in anything, never originated anything, never produced anything? Sufficient answer to all; Shares. O mighty Shares! To set those blaring images so high, and to cause us smaller vermin, as under the influence of henbane or opium, to cry out, night and day, 'Relieve us of...
Page 122 - ... may be considered to have been embodied in Miss Podsnap, his daughter. It was an inconvenient and exacting institution, as requiring everything in the universe to be filed down and fitted to it. The question about everything was, Would it bring a blush into the cheek of the young person ? And the inconvenience of the young person was, that, according to Mr.