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classicals (9)in #pecksniff • 14 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #12/428
He was perhaps about thirty, but he might have been almost any age between sixteen and sixty; being one of those strange creatures who never decline into an ancient appearance…
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classicals (9)in #laughed • 24 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #11/428
Eh, Charity?'Glancing towards his daughters for the first time since he had begun these reflections, and seeing that they both smiled, Mr Pecksniff eyed them for an instant so…
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classicals (9)in #pecksniff • 29 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #10/428
'Even the worldly goods of which we have just disposed,' said Mr Pecksniff, glancing round the table when he had finished, 'even cream, sugar, tea, toast, ham--''And eggs,'…
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classicals (9)in #pecksniff • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #9/428
What a pleasant sight was that the contrast they presented; to see each loved and loving one sympathizing with, and devoted to, and leaning on, and yet correcting and…
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classicals (9)in #pecksniff • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #8/428
She said it at a venture, but there was appropriate matter in it too; for Mr Pecksniff, being in the act of extinguishing the candles before mentioned pretty rapidly, and of…
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classicals (9)in #shrill • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #7/428
As to this idle company, there they stood, spellbound by the place, and, casting now and then a glance upon the darkness in their rear, settled their lazy elbows more at ease…
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classicals (9)in #twowherein • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #6/428
CHAPTER TWOWHEREIN CERTAIN PERSONS ARE PRESENTED TO THE READER, WITH WHOM HE MAY, IF HE PLEASE, BECOME BETTER ACQUAINTEDIt was pretty late in the autumn of the year, when the…
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classicals (9)in #chuzzlewit • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #5/428
Rejecting a theory broached by some well-meaning but mistaken persons, that this Mr Toby Chuzzlewit's grandfather, to judge from his name, must surely have been a Mandarin (which…
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classicals (9)in #venerable • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #4/428
But there is one other piece of evidence, bearing immediate reference to their close connection with this memorable event in English History, which must carry conviction, even to…
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classicals (9)in #chuzzlewit • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #3/428
CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTORY, CONCERNING THE PEDIGREE OF THE CHUZZLEWIT FAMILYAs no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit…
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classicals (9)in #york • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #2/428
POSTSCRIPTAt a Public Dinner given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States of…
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classicals (9)in #perceives • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #1/428
PREFACEWhat is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable…
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