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Page 7 - Podsnap; prosperously feeding, two little light-coloured wiry wings, one on either side of his else bald head, looking as like his hairbrushes as his hair, dissolving view of red beads on his forehead, large allowance of crumpled shirt-collar up behind. Reflects Mrs Podsnap; fine woman for Professor Owen, quantity of bone, neck and nostrils like a rocking-horse, hard features, majestic head-dress in which Podsnap has hung golden offerings.
Page 55 - Here you have as much of me in my ugliness as if I were only lead ; but I am so many ounces of precious metal worth so much an ounce ; — wouldn't you like to melt me down...
Page 5 - And what was observable in the furniture, was observable in the Veneerings - the surface smelt a little too much of the workshop and was a trifle sticky.
Page 5 - ... Veneerings was spick and span new. All 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...
Page 56 - ... all over as if it had broken out in an eruption rather than been ornamented, delivered this address from an unsightly silver 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...
Page 336 - Now my wife is something nearer to my heart, Mortimer, than Tippins is, and I owe her a little more than I owe to Tippins, and I am rather prouder of her than I ever was of Tippins. Therefore, I will fight it out. to the last gasp, with her and for her, here in the open field. When I hide her, or strike for her, faint-heartedly, in a hole or a corner, do you, whom I love next best upon earth, tell me what I shall most righteously deserve to be told : — that she would have done well to have turned...
Page 56 - And other countries,' said the foreign gentleman. 'They do how?' 'They do, Sir,' returned Mr Podsnap, gravely shaking his head; 'they do I am sorry to be obliged to say it - as they do.
Page 26 - The difference, sir ? There you place me in a difficulty, Mr. Boffin. Suffice it to observe, that the difference is best postponed to some other occasion when Mrs. Boffin does not honour us with her company. In Mrs. Boffin's presence, sir, we had better drop it.
Page 4 - No. Has a dead man any use for money ? Is it possible for a dead man to have money ? What world does a dead man belong to ? T'other world. What world does money belong to ? This world. How can money be a corpse's ? Can a corpse own it, want it, spend it, claim it, miss it ? Don't try to go confounding the rights and wrongs of things in that way. But it's worthy of the sneaking spirit that robs a live man.
Page 54 - ... getting up at eight, shaving close at a quarter past, breakfasting at nine, going to the City at ten, coming home at half-past five, and dining at seven.