 | Charles Dickens - 1897 - 602 pages
...through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. " Those darling byegone times, Mr. Carker," said Cleopatra, "with their delicious fortresses, and their...truly charming ! How dreadfully we have degenerated ! " " Yes, we have fallen off deplorably,11 said Mr. Carker. The peculiarity of their conversation... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1897 - 644 pages
...stalking before them through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. of torturet_aiid_thCT'1' vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming I— .IIuw duaulfully we have degenerated ! " " Yes, we have fallen off deplorably," said Mr. Carker.... | |
 | Frederic George Kitton - Authors, English - 1905 - 376 pages
...bygone times," she observed to Mr. Carker, bent upon showing him the beauties of that historic pile, " with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old...truly charming ! How dreadfully we have degenerated !" Cleopatra and the rest of the little party " made the tour of the pictures, the walls, crow's nest,... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1905 - 410 pages
...and not according to their own." — Nicholas Nickleby. Nov. 22. — " Those darling byegone times, with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old...truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!" — Dombey and Son — Mrs. Skewton. Nov. 23. — "Tears are signs of gladness as well as grief." —... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1905 - 426 pages
...and not according to their own." — Nicholas Nickleby. Nov. 22. — "Those darling byegone times, with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old...places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and iheir picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming ! How dreadfully... | |
 | Walter Frewen Lord - English fiction - 1906 - 328 pages
...a very cheerful place.' " Then there are Toots, and Susan Nipper, and Dr. Blimber, and last of all Cleopatra. " Those darling bygone times, Mr. Carker,"...are almost tempted to place her in the first rank of Dickens' creation among the immortals. Oliver Twist contains six immortals, if not seven : Fagan, Bumble,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1908
...escort Edith, which he did : stalking before them through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults...truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated ! " " Yes, we have fallen off deplorably," said Mr. Carker. The peculiarity of their conversation was,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1911 - 500 pages
...escort Edith, which he did: stalking before them through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults...truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated !" " Yes, we have fallen off deplorably," said Mr. Corker. The peculiarity of their conversation was,... | |
 | Charles Edward Montague - England - 1924 - 254 pages
...lawful vibrations of conscious contact with the Dark Ages — " those darling bygone times, Mr. Carker, with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old...sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming." Wisdom was justified of her children. The Swiss are inspired hotel-keepers. Some centuries since, when... | |
 | Charles Edward Montague - England - 1924 - 244 pages
...of conscious contact with the Dark Ages — " those darling bygone times, Mr. Carker, with their 26 delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons,...sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming." Wisdom was justified of her children. The Swiss are inspired hotel-keepers. Some centuries since, when... | |
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with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!'... 
