 | Charles Dickens - 1862 - 348 pages
...supposed that we were ever a great house, or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand waj of business; but we had a good name, and worked for our...profits, and did very welL We owed so much to Herbert's ever-cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 250 pages
...supposed that we were ever a great House, or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our...profits, and did very well. We owed so much to Herbert's ever-cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1881 - 564 pages
...supposed that we were ever a great House, or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business ; but we had a good name, and worked for our profits, and did very well. We owed BO much to Herbert's ever-cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 1018 pages
...House, or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business ; but we had a good uame, and worked for our profits, and did very well. We owed so much to Herbert's ever-cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 566 pages
...supposed that we wt-reVPT a great House, or that we made mints of money. 'We Wore not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our...Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I oftwi wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened... | |
 | Maire Jaanus, Maire J. Kurrik - Education - 1988 - 292 pages
...undo by labor and by a final recognition of his contemporary, Herbert. We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our...readiness that I often wondered how I had conceived the old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection that perhaps the... | |
 | Robert M. Polhemus - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 395 pages
...with Herbert and his wife, and lived frugally, and paid my debts. . . . We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our profits, and did very well" (58:489). Desire is tamed, but desire is what makes hope, plots, and the future. Erotic faith may be... | |
 | William A. Cohen - History - 1996 - 276 pages
...supposed that we were ever a great House, or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our profits, and did very well" (489). 23. The false hands of the forge and the forger ultimately converge in Orlick: an indolent laborer... | |
 | Robin Richardson, Berenice Miles - Discrimination in education - 2003 - 104 pages
...no means recognised the analysis, but thought it not worth disputing. (Chapter 3 1 ) Had been in me We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry...wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his ineptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection that perhaps the ineptitude had never... | |
 | Alex Woloch - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 404 pages
...supposed that we were ever a great House. or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business. but we had a good name. and worked for our profits. and did very well" (489). On the other hand. we are left with a lingering memory of the narrative system. of the partial... | |
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I must not leave it to be supposed that we were ever a great House, or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good name, and worked for our profits, and did very well. 
