The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friendGebbie Publishing Company, 1895 |
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الصفحة 107 - Mr. Podsnap's world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that, although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake, and of their manners and customs would conclusively observe, "Not English!
الصفحة 5 - ... the tiers of shipping lay on either hand. It was not until now that the upper half of the man came back into the boat. His arms were wet and dirty, and he washed them over the side. In his right hand he held something, and he washed that in the river too. It was money. He chinked it once, and he blew upon it once, and he spat upon it once, — " for luck," he hoarsely said — before he put it in his pocket.
الصفحة 111 - We Englishmen are Very Proud of our Constitution, Sir. It Was Bestowed Upon Us By Providence. No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country.
الصفحة 244 - Eugene, do you design to capture and desert this girl?" ' My dear fellow, no." ' Do you design to marry her ? " ' My dear fellow, no." ' Do you design to pursue her ? " ' My dear fellow, I don't design anything. I have no design whatever. I am incapable of designs. If I conceived a design, I should speedily ; abandon it, exhausted by the operation.
الصفحة 96 - Shares. O mighty Shares ! To set those blaring images so high, and to cause us smaller vermin, as under the influence of henbane or opium, to cry out night and day, " Relieve us of our money, scatter it for us, buy us and sell us, ruin us, only we beseech ye take rank among the powers of the earth, and fatten on us...
الصفحة 233 - Oh, so tranquil!" cried the little creature, smiling. "Oh, so peaceful and so thankful ! And you hear the people who are alive, crying, and working, and calling to one another down in the close dark streets, and you seem to pity them so ! And such a chain has fallen from you, and such a strange good, sorrowful, happiness comes upon you!
الصفحة 484 - I've looked in upon you, and empire resumes her sway. For, as the song says — subject to your correction, sir — ' When the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled If Venus appears. Like the notes of a fiddle, you sweetly, sir, sweetly, Raises our spirits and charms our ears.' Good-night, sir." " I shall have a word or two to say to you, Mr. Wegg, before long," remarked Venus, "respecting my share in the project we've been speaking of.
الصفحة 107 - PODSNAP was well to do, and stood very high in Mr. Podsnap's opinion. Beginning with a good inheritance, he had married a good inheritance, and had thriven exceedingly in the Marine Insurance way, and was quite satisfied. He never could make out why everybody was not quite satisfied, and he felt conscious that he set a brilliant social example in being particularly well satisfied with most things, and, above all other things, with himself. Thus happily acquainted with his own merit and importance,...
الصفحة 19 - The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower, and by the Docks ; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe ; down by where accumulated scum of humanity seemed to be washed from higher grounds, like so much moral sewage, and to be pausing until its own weight forced it over the bank and sunk it in the river...
الصفحة 683 - I remember with devout thankfulness that I can never be much nearer parting company with my readers forever than I was then, until there shall be written against my life the two words with which I have this day closed this book : — THE END.