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... wretch , whose entire suit consisted of a pair of manly trousers ingeniously secured by a single brace over a dilapidated shirt of the Guernsey order , and whose stock - in- trade was five or six cakes of boot blacking , contained in a ...
... wretch , whose entire suit consisted of a pair of manly trousers ingeniously secured by a single brace over a dilapidated shirt of the Guernsey order , and whose stock - in- trade was five or six cakes of boot blacking , contained in a ...
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... wretched bed by his little hunch- back sister and dreaming of the genius of the coffee - pot , and of desperately wicked young John Galloper , and of what , one of these days , would inevitably come out of his pernicious " mixshure ...
... wretched bed by his little hunch- back sister and dreaming of the genius of the coffee - pot , and of desperately wicked young John Galloper , and of what , one of these days , would inevitably come out of his pernicious " mixshure ...
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... thing at times it is to resist temptation , rather more than might reasonably be expected of him . " But , " the reader may say , " there is at least this consola- tion in so wretched a neighbourhood , where all are 20 IN STRANGE COMPANY .
... thing at times it is to resist temptation , rather more than might reasonably be expected of him . " But , " the reader may say , " there is at least this consola- tion in so wretched a neighbourhood , where all are 20 IN STRANGE COMPANY .
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James Greenwood. tion in so wretched a neighbourhood , where all are so deeply plunged in poverty - there can be but very little of drunk- enness . Intoxicating liquors are expensive luxuries . " Very expensive . A " quartern of gin ...
James Greenwood. tion in so wretched a neighbourhood , where all are so deeply plunged in poverty - there can be but very little of drunk- enness . Intoxicating liquors are expensive luxuries . " Very expensive . A " quartern of gin ...
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... wretched little waif , who will tolerate semi - starvation , but beyond that point may not be relied on to keep his hands from picking and stealing ; so he is a proper object for rescue , and it comes cheap for the country to take him ...
... wretched little waif , who will tolerate semi - starvation , but beyond that point may not be relied on to keep his hands from picking and stealing ; so he is a proper object for rescue , and it comes cheap for the country to take him ...
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Сторінка 318 - PARIS HERSELF AGAIN. BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. WITH 350 CHARACTERISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRENCH ARTISTS. "On subjects like those in his present work, Mr. Sala is at his best." — The Times. " This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala.
Сторінка 92 - that that's the fashion at present among my tribe j sure all my brother puppies smoke now, and a man might as well be out of the world as 'out of the fashion, you know.
Сторінка 21 - The most favourite entertainment at this place is known as "tuff-ball" in which both sexes — innocent of clothing — madly join, stimulated with raw whisky and the music of a fiddle and a tin whistle.
Сторінка 320 - LIFE, AND SAVING A DAUGHTER'S DOWRY. By E. About. COLOMBA, AND CARMEN. By P. Merimee. A WOMAN'S DIARY, AND THE LITTLE COUNTESS. By 0. Feuillet. ODETTE'S MARRIAGE. By A. Delpit. THE TOWER OF PERCEMONT. By George Sand. BLUE-EYED META HOLDENIS. By V. Cherbuliez. THE GODSON OF A MARQUIS. By A. Theuriet.
Сторінка 318 - This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala. Endowed with a facility to extract humour from every phase of the world's stage, and blessed with a wondrous store of recondite lore, he outdoes himself when he deals with a city like Paris that he knows so well, and that affords such an opportunity for his pen."— Truth.
Сторінка 319 - PERIL," &c. Illustrated with an Exact Representation of the Diamond Necklace, from a Contemporary Drawing, and a Portrait of the Countess de la Motte, engraved on Steel. " Had the most daring of our sensational novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader.
Сторінка 319 - Public; and comprising a Sketch of the Life of the Countess de la Motte, pretended Confidant of Marie Antoinette, and Particulars of the Careers of the other Actors in this remarkable Drama. By HENRY VIZETELLY. Illustrated with an exact representation of the Diamond Necklace, and a Portrait of the Countess de la Motte, engraved on steel.
Сторінка 211 - Her skin was dusky yellow, and tightly drawn at the nostrils and the cheek bones ; and evidently she had, since her marriage, taken such a thoroughly Chinese view of life, that her organs of vision were fast losing their European shape, and assuming that which coincided with her adopted nature.
Сторінка 319 - Had the most daring of our sensational novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it is true."— A otea and Querie*.
Сторінка 3 - ... laid out his little stock to dry. Ginger's delight, when the landlord brought in along with a big loaf the half of a huge Cheshire cheese, was a sight to behold ; his amazement when the landlord left the room, leaving the half-cheese behind him, I will not attempt to describe. ' He's forgot it, ain't he ? ' he said, handling his knife as though sadly tempted to make the most of the innkeeper's mistake by slicing off a pound or so. ' No, he hasn't forgotten, my lad,' said I, ' he'll fetch it away...