Bleak House: Illustrated with Proof Impressions from Designs, Volume 3Printed at the Riverside Press, 1869 |
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Allan Woodcourt asked Bagnet better Bleak House Bluffy Caddy chair Charley Chesney Wold Clifford's Inn comes cough court cousin cried dark daughter dear girl door Esther eyes face gentleman George give glad gone Guardian guv'ner hand happy head hear heard heart honor hope Jarndyce and Jarndyce John Jarndyce knew Lady Dedlock light Lincoln's Inn Fields Lincolnshire little woman Mademoiselle manner mean mind Miss Flite Miss Summerson morning never night nothink observes old girl Phil poor Pray present replied returns the trooper Richard rolling stone Rouncewell Saint Albans Sangsby says Sir Leicester seemed shaking sits Skimpole Smallweed Snagsby Sol's Arms Somers Town speak suppose sure tell thank thing thought told Tom-all-Alone's Tony trouble Tulk Tulkinghorn turned up-stairs Vholes Volumnia walk Weevle wery window wish word young
Popular passages
Page 296 - Where they laid him as wos wery good to me, wery good to me indeed, he wos. It's time fur me to go down to that there berryin ground sir, and ask to be put along with him. I wants to go there and be berried. He used fur to say to me, ' I am as poor as you to-day, Jo,' he ses. I wants to tell him that I am as poor as him now, and have come there to be laid along with him.
Page 297 - The light is come upon the dark benighted way. Dead! Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
Page 285 - He is not one of Mrs. Pardiggle's Tockahoopo Indians; he is not one of Mrs. Jellyby's lambs, being wholly unconnected with Borrioboola-Gha ; he is not softened by distance and unfamiliarity ; he is not a genuine foreign-grown savage ; he is the ordinary home-made article?
Page 219 - ... legs of beef and mutton for breakfast; I don't. Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret; I am content. I don't want them for themselves, but they remind me of the sun. There's nothing solar about legs of beef and mutton. Mere animal satisfaction!' 'This is our friend's consulting room (or would be, if he ever prescribed), his sanctum, his studio,
Page 132 - Vholes — a sallow man with pinched lips that looked as if they were cold, a red eruption here and there upon his face, tall and thin, about fifty years of age, high-shouldered, and stooping. Dressed in black, black-gloved, and buttoned to the chin, there was nothing so remarkable in him as a lifeless manner, and a slow fixed way he had of looking at ttichard. ,• l hope I don't disturb you, ladies,
Page 88 - Fitz-Jarndyce?" she asked, rather sharply. I said it was not the custom in England to confer titles on men distinguished by peaceful services, however good and great ; unless occasionally, when they consisted of the accumulation of some very large amount of money. "Why, good gracious," said Miss Mite, "how can you say that?
Page 108 - For I saw very well that I could not have been intended to die, or I should never have lived; not to say should never have been reserved for such a happy life. I saw very well how many things had worked together, for my welfare; and that if the sins of the fathers were sometimes visited upon the children, the phrase did not mean what I had in the morning feared it meant.