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... side , until they arrive at some house , smelling strongly of soot , at the door of which the beadle knocks with consider- able gravity for half - an - hour . No attention being paid to these manual applications , and the turn - cock ...
... side , until they arrive at some house , smelling strongly of soot , at the door of which the beadle knocks with consider- able gravity for half - an - hour . No attention being paid to these manual applications , and the turn - cock ...
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... side of the little court - yard between school hours , it would be difficult , indeed , for the most intimate of his former friends to recognise their once gay and happy associate , in the person of the Pauper Schoolmaster . CHAPTER II ...
... side of the little court - yard between school hours , it would be difficult , indeed , for the most intimate of his former friends to recognise their once gay and happy associate , in the person of the Pauper Schoolmaster . CHAPTER II ...
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... side aisle , beheld such devotion on earth as they all exhibited . He was about five - and - twenty when he first came to astonish the parishioners . He parted his hair on the centre of his forehead in the form of a Norman arch , wore a ...
... side aisle , beheld such devotion on earth as they all exhibited . He was about five - and - twenty when he first came to astonish the parishioners . He parted his hair on the centre of his forehead in the form of a Norman arch , wore a ...
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... side ; and when she drinks tea here , Sarah runs out first and knocks a double - knock , to prevent the possibility of her " Missis's " catching cold by having to wait at the door . She is very scrupulous in returning these little ...
... side ; and when she drinks tea here , Sarah runs out first and knocks a double - knock , to prevent the possibility of her " Missis's " catching cold by having to wait at the door . She is very scrupulous in returning these little ...
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... side , the probable use of which , we were at a loss to conjecture . Then we fancied that Mr. Dawson , the surgeon , & c . , who displays a large lamp with a different colour in every pane of glass , at the corner of the row , began to ...
... side , the probable use of which , we were at a loss to conjecture . Then we fancied that Mr. Dawson , the surgeon , & c . , who displays a large lamp with a different colour in every pane of glass , at the corner of the row , began to ...
Contents
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CHAPTER XVIII | 177 |
CHAPTER XIX | 190 |
CHAPTER XX | 197 |
CHAPTER XXII | 212 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 219 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 228 |
CHAPTER XXV | 234 |
CHARACTERS | 251 |
CHAPTER III | 69 |
CHAPTER IV | 75 |
CHAPTER V | 81 |
CHAPTER VI | 87 |
CHAPTER VII | 95 |
CHAPTER VIII | 100 |
CHAPTER IX | 107 |
CHAPTER X | 113 |
Astleys | 121 |
CHAPTER XII | 129 |
CHAPTER XIII | 139 |
CHAPTER XIV | 147 |
CHAPTER XV | 154 |
CHAPTER XVI | 161 |
CHAPTER II | 257 |
CHAPTER III | 263 |
CHAPTER IV | 269 |
The Parlour Orator | 275 |
CHAPTER VI | 281 |
CHAPTER VII | 286 |
CHAPTER VIII | 293 |
CHAPTER IX | 300 |
CHAPTER X | 307 |
CHAPTER XII | 319 |
The Boardinghouse | 323 |
CHAPTER II | 367 |
CHAPTER III | 380 |
Common terms and phrases
amusement appearance astonishment Augustus Cooper beadle Bloss blue boots boys Bung churchwardens coach coat costermongers crowd dancing dear delight dinner dirty door dress ejaculated Evenson exclaimed eyes face feelings fellow Fixem front gentleman George Cruikshank girl glass Gravesend green hackney-coach hand head heard hour inquired Jennings Rodolph John Dounce knocked knocker laugh look Maplesone Margate Minns misery Miss Brook Miss Crumpton Miss J'mima Ivins Miss Martin Miss Willises morning mother neckerchief never night o'clock Old Bailey old lady once pantomime parish parlour party pawnbrokers prison quadrille replied Robert Smithers round Samuel Wilkins seated Serjeant-at-Arms servant Seven Dials shabby-genteel shouts side Signor Billsmethi Spruggins standing stout street street-door theatres Thomas Potter Tibbs Tupple turn vestry voice waistcoat walked whispered whole window Wisbottle woman workhouse wretched young lady
Popular passages
Page 258 - One little seat may be empty ; one slight form that gladdened the father's heart, and roused the mother's pride to look upon, may not be there. Dwell not upon the past ; think not that one short year ago, the fair child now resolving into dust, sat before you, with the bloom of health upon its cheek, and the gaiety of infancy in its joyous eye.
Page 111 - ... parties arriving every moment, look as warm as the tables which have been recently painted, and have the appearance of being redhot. What a dust and noise! Men and women — boys and girls — sweethearts and married people — babies in arms, and children in chaises — pipes and shrimps — cigars and periwinkles — tea and tobacco. Gentlemen, in alarming waistcoats, and steel watch-guards, promenading about, three abreast, with surprising dignity (or as the gentleman in the next box facetiously...
Page v - I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.
Page 308 - ... old shoes from slipping off at the heels, — if you observe too that his yellowish-white neckerchief is carefully pinned up, to conceal the tattered garment underneath, and that his hands are encased in the remains of an old pair of beaver gloves , you may set him down as a shabbygenteel man. A glance at that depressed face, and timorous air of conscious poverty , will make your heart ache — always supposing that you are neither a philosopher, nor a political economist.