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...ke and an estimate of his services rendered to England 374- 378 CHAPTER XXXVI. Cavendish's voyages around the world. -- Glory of the Elizabethan Age -... ... the Elizabethan Age -- The spirit of discovery animates England -- Heroism of Cavendish -- Equipment of an expedition to the South Sea -- Cavendish i... ... A Spanish queen on the island of Puna -- Another battle with the Spaniards -- Cavendish destroys the shipping along the coast of South America -- A h... ... destroys the shipping along the coast of South America -- A hot fight between Cavendish and the Spaniards -- Capture of the galleon and its rich trea... ...galleon and its rich treasure -- Singular disappearance of the ship Content -- Cavendish, reduced to a single vessel, starts for the Ladrone Islands -... ...sable love for history; that it may diffuse both pleasure and knowledge in the family circle; that it may be helpful in teaching the value of good boo... ...oah stepped forth upon dry land after the flood had drowned all except his own family. It is, therefore, no strange thing that in this region, along t... ...t the curious, resemblance borne by the heads of several varieties of the seal family to the human countenance misled him, and that he was honestly mi... ...ller passing by goes into any man's house for entertainment, the master of the family receives him with great joy, and commands his wife and all the f...

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...d Park, where she was kindly welcomed; but wealth did not so abound in the family but that, when opportunity offered, he was thankful to accept the co... ...them by God, as she assuredly is.” “Mean you, then, to adopt her into your family?” asked the minister. “We know not if she hath any kin,” said Richar... ... the employment was thought by Mis- tress Susan somewhat derogatory to the family dignity, and there was a strong suspicion both in her mind and that ... ...te of Bridgefield in fief on tenure of military service to the head of his family. She did not know how much it was worth by the year, but she must pr... ...daughter to the Countess, who had been respectively mar- ried to Sir Henry Cavendish and Sir Gilbert Talbot, a few weeks before their respective paren... ...d the little party waiting in the hall also numbered Elizabeth and William Cavendish, the Countess’s youngest children, and many dependants mus- tered... ...was being tossed to and fro between them, but as she never caught it, Will Cavendish was content to pick it up every time and return it to her, appear... ...hat ruffled by sport, and advanced to the head of the stone steps, William Cavendish, the eldest of the boys, being sent down to take his stepfather’s... ...the Earl presented his daugh- ter, Lady Grace, his stepdaughter, Elizabeth Cavendish, and his kinswoman, Mistress Susan Talbot, the extraordinary magi...

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...d to have Albinia for a neighbour.’ ‘Does she know nothing of the Meadows’ family?’ ‘Nothing but that old Mrs. Meadows lives in the town with one unma... ...r. Ferrars, perfectly clerical though they were, he belonged to a military family. His father had been a distinguished Peninsular officer, and his bro... ...ind home in their house in Mayfair, until Maurice had been ordained to the family liv- ing of Fairmead, and his sister had gone to live with him there... ...r infants! how many hopes laid here! All the English- born children of the family had died in their cradles, and not only did compassion for the past ... ...esent, the Vicar having been summoned to Paris by the sudden death of Mrs. Cavendish Dusautoy. As the image of a well-endowed widow, always trying to ... ...ay, some people thought him still finer- looking. She was a Miss Greenaway Cavendish, a stock- broker’s heiress of a certain age.’ ‘Oh!’ expressively ... ...y, bent on extracting the full description of the great Algernon Greenaway Cavendish Dusautoy, Esquire. Lucy’s first sight was less at her ease. Eliza... ...w in the tool-house, whence could be descried the vicarage garden, and Mr. Cavendish Dusautoy, as, with a cigar in his mouth, and his hands in his poc... ...taly now-a-days?’ said Albinia. ‘That is an original production.’ ‘Did Mr. Cavendish Dusautoy do that?’ cried Lucy. ‘Genre is his style,’ was the repl...

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...weat on me like running. The people who had turned out were the girl’s own family; and pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she had been sent put in his ... ... I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight. So had the child’s family, which was only natural. But the doctor’s case was what struck me. H... ... your figure.’ Well, we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child’s family; he would have clearly liked to stick out; but there was something a... ...ld have thought of ) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the mor... ...blew out his candle, put on a greatcoat, and set forth in the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the great Dr.... ...familiars—even the master of the servant maid had only seen him twice; his family could nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed; and the few... ...phial and a paper book. This drawer I beg of you to carry back with you to Cavendish Square exactly as it stands. “That is the first part of the servi... ..., had it filled up with straw and tied in a sheet, and returned with it to Cavendish Square. Here I proceeded to examine its contents. The powders wer...

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...avelling in a barouche with four horses, drove in state to a fine hotel in Cavendish Square, where a suite of splendid rooms, and a table magnificentl... ...vast and dingy state bedroom, which was awaiting her at the grand hotel in Cavendish Square. Dear little white bed! how many a long night had she wept... ...ge of being allied to the Malonys, whom she believed to be the most famous family in the world. Having tried nine seasons at Dublin and two at Bath an... ...ter in- stead, and to look upon you as such, and to love you as one of the family. Faith, you’ve got such a nice good-natured face and way widg you, t... ...widg you, that I’m sure we’ll agree; and that you’ll be an addition to our family anyway.” 14 V anity Fair – V olume Two “‘Deed and she will,” said O... ...bear. She told Amelia a thousand particulars relative to the very numerous family of which the amazed young lady found herself a member. “Mrs. Heavyto... ...of the French service to put us through the exercise.” Of this incongruous family our astonished Amelia found herself all of a sudden a member: with M...

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...Duke of Marlborough was a spy too, and as much in correspondence with that family as any Jesuit. And without entering very eagerly into the contro- ve... ...y eagerly into the contro- versy, Esmond had frankly taken the side of his family. It seemed to him that King James the Third was undoubtedly King of ... ...y—no, damme, you shall rep- resent the county. Y ou have the brains of the family. By the Lord, my dear old Harry, you have the best head and the kind... ...? And it was to this end we were fighting; for this that every village and family in England was deploring the death of beloved sons and fathers. We d... ... to the King’s side in politics (that side being always held by the Esmond family); but where he endeavored to reopen the controversial question betwe... ... came. Why should we say goold and write gold, and call china chayney, and Cavendish Candish, and Cholmondeley Chumley? If we call Pulteney Poltney, w...

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...poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest family which lives by his tumbling; but the general impression is one more ... ...te of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing har- ness, driven by a fat coa... ...sted that Miss Sharp’s stay in Russell Square may not exceed ten days. The family of distinction with whom she is engaged, desire to avail themselves ... ...od parent, child, wife, or husband; who actually does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occ... ...lluded to, but used to state subsequently that the Entrechats were a noble family of Gascony, and took 14 V anity Fair great pride in her descent fro... ...avelling in a barouche with four horses, drove in state to a fine hotel in Cavendish Square, where a suite of splendid rooms, and a table magnificentl... ...vast and dingy state bedroom, which was awaiting her at the grand hotel in Cavendish Square. Dear little white bed! how many a long night had she wept...

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...heritance, for my parents would never have permitted them- selves or their family to be unsettled by the notion of doubt- ful contingencies. My father... ...House. My mother, whose maiden name was Mary Griffith, belonged to a naval family. Her father had been lost in a West Indian hurricane at sea, and her... ...cane at sea, and her uncle, Admiral Sir John Griffith, was the hero of the family, having been at T rafalgar and dis- tinguished himself in cutting ou... ...n perplexed by the fact that Clarence was exemplary at church and prayers, family and private,— whenever Griff would let him, that is to say,—and woul... ...ading. Indeed, Mrs. Sherwood’s have some literary merit, and her Fairchild Family indulged in such delicious and eccentric acts of naugh- tiness as qu... ...mily was her sister.’ One day she had gone to luncheon with the Lesters in Cavendish Square, and was to be called for in the carriage by me, on the wa...

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...tion of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth) Hu... ...e exponents of high birth or descent. Sackville, Manners, Fitzroy, Paulet, Cavendish, and scores of others, tell their own tale. Such persons, therefo... ...ther dependants. Now, my landlady had been a lady’s maid or a nurse in the family of the Bishop of —, and had but lately married away and “settled” (a... ...) for life. In a little town like B-, merely to have lived in the bishop’s family conferred some distinction; and my good landlady had rather more tha... ...y a party concerned. She had been to the palace to pay her respects to the family, and, dinner being over, was summoned into the dining-room. In givin... ...d part of Merionethshire, I was entertained for upwards of three days by a family of young people with an affectionate and frater- 17 Thomas de Quinc...

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...m as provision: “Will it eat one, Father?”—Poor little open-eyed John: the family long bantered him with this anecdote; and we, in far other years, la... ...er; son of the Episcopalian Clergyman there; and chief representative of a family of some stand- ing in those parts. Family founded, it appears, by a ... ... brother who had followed him into Ireland. From this William descends the family which, in the years we treat of, had Edward Ster- ling, Father of ou... ...dward, John’s Father, in 1847. There were, and still are, daughters of the family; but Edward was the only son;—descended, too, from the Scottish hero... ...; but of available probably little or nothing more. The rents of the small family estate, I suppose, and other property, had gone to portion sisters. ... ...oxall, Esq. R. Monteith, Esq. T. Carlyle, Esq. S. A. O’Brien, Esq. Hon. R. Cavendish (?) Sir F. Palgrave (?) H. N. Coleridge, Esq.(?) W. F. Pollok, Es... ... you have re- ceived a Letter I wrote on Sunday last, and addressed to The Cavendish. I sent it thither by Susan’s advice. “In this missive,—happily f...

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...lay and detested the grind of the real-estate busi- ness, and disliked his family, and disliked himself for dis- liking them. The evening before, he h... ...treamy and his eyes stinging from soapy water, he reached for a towel. The family towels were wet, wet and clammy and vile, all of them wet, he found,... ...ooked into Verona’s bedroom and protested, “What’s the use of giv- ing the family a high-class house when they don’t appre- ciate it and tend to busin... ...t show his vague irritation as he tramped in. He really dis- liked being a family tyrant, and his nagging was as mean- ingless as it was frequent. He ... ...rona giggled, momentary victor in the greatest of Great Wars, which is the family war. Ted looked at her hope- lessly, then shrieked at Tinka: “For th... ...se around and look at it now?” “Yes. I have a couple of hours.” In the new Cavendish Apartments, Babbitt had a flat which he had been holding for Sidn... ...They looked at each other with a high degree of mutual respect, and at the Cavendish Apartments he helped her out in a courtly manner, waved his hand ... ...in. “This is Mrs. Judique. Do you remember me? You drove me up here to the Cavendish Apartments and helped me find such a nice flat.” “Sure! Bet I rem...

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... friend must please to look at baby. ‘Ah! You will know the friend of your family better, T ootleums,’ says Mr V eneering, nodding emotionally at that... ...loomy Eugene, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a barrister in the family. We have got a precious one.’ ‘It was forced upon me,’ said Mortimer... ...aid Mortimer, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a solicitor in the family. And we have got a precious one.’ ‘There are four of us, with our na... ...f slack water it got out to sea and drifted away . Chapter 4 THE R. WILFER FAMILY REGINALD WILFER IS A NAME with rather a grand sound, sug- gesting on... ... no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. But, the Reginald Wilfer family were of such common- place extraction and pursuits that their forefa... ... 5 BOFFIN’S BOWER OVER AGAINST A LONDON HOUSE, a corner house not far from Cavendish Square, a man with a wooden leg had sat for some years, with his ...

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...r to ask the guest whether he would like a slice of the joint to which the family were about to sit down, fancy that lady’s start of astonishment at r... ...re. The Captain at once demanded permission to partake of the joint at the family table; the lady could not with any great reason deny this re- quest;... ...ommunicative; and, in short, the Captain had all the secrets of the little family in his possession ere sunset. He knew that Miss cared little for eit... ...of signifying the circumstance which was about to take place in the Walker family as Miss Prim herself could desire. Mrs. Walker’s mother was about to... ...ce, when Doublequits left the Fleet, he was received with open arms by his family, and had two-and-thirty horses in his stables before a week was over... ...ge and new fashions, Sir George still reigned pre-eminent for a mile round Cavendish Square. By the young pupils of the academy he was called Sir Char...

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...rs as an immortal artist! 11 Little Dorrit – Book Two ‘But he is a man of family,’ he added. ‘His connections are of the best. He is more than an art... ...u for my asking you not to say anything about the letter here. Y ou saw my family with me, perhaps? Some of them—I only say this to you—are a little p... ...our health, sir!’ ‘Sir, I thank you.’ ‘To the health of your distinguished family—of the fair la- dies, your daughters!’ ‘Sir, I thank you again, I wi... ...omplished lady who was of sufficient importance in the suite of the Dorrit Family to have a line to herself in the Travellers’ Book. Mrs General was t... ...sition. If the honour were proposed to me of becoming known to Mr Dorrit’s family—I think two daugh- ters were mentioned?—’ ‘Two daughters.’ ‘I could ... ...derful undertakings went on and went up; and gapers came to Harley Street, Cavendish Square, only to look at the house where the golden wonder lived. ... ...R 16 Getting on THE NEWLY MARRIED PAIR, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London, were received by the Chief But- ler. That great m...

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...ge scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a tale which has become rather a family record than a novel. Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was... ...inth in partibus infidelium, a younger son of the Duke of Retz, an Italian family introduced by Catherince de Medici. There seemed to be a hope that t... ...nother brother, Berenger, and my little sis- ter, Annora, followed me. Our family had property both in England and in Picardy, and it was while attend... ...h young girl I should have accepted my lot naturally, and no doubt all the family infinitely regretted that their choice has fallen on one so impracti... ...et set by me, and asked many questions about my mother and the rest of the family, treating me more as a 26 Stray Pearls woman than anyone else had d... ... the Hotel Rambouillet. She also told me about the noble-hearted Lady Jane Cavendish, the daughter of the Marquis’s first marriage— how she held out a...

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...ous frauds; and, finally, that he wrote under the patronage of the Flavian family: by his sycophancy he had won their protection, which would have ove... ... from the first, with the simplicity of truth, in what order of society my family moved at the time from which this preliminary narrative is dated. Ot... ... as of some higher rank than did really 18 Thomas de Quincey belong to my family. And this impression might seem to have been designedly insinuated b... ...and very soon after the incidents recorded in this chapter, leaving to his family, then consisting of a wife and six children, an unburdened estate pr... ... as it exists in England, it will readily occur that in an opulent English family of that class—opulent, though not emphatically rich in a mercantile ... ...eley as Chumleigh; Marjoribanks as Marchbanks; and the illustrious name of Cavendish was for centuries familiarly pronounced Candish; and Wordsworth h...

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...ressed a long- ing to fire off one of the pistols in the holsters. As this family discussion was taking place, the gentlemen whose appearance had crea... ...well- grown girl, under encouraging circumstances—say, she is pretty, in a family of ugly elder sisters, or an only child and heiress, or a humble wen... ... she was fallen now, and not good enough for him.” And this made the Dobbs family admire her more and more, and cast about for means to bring the mar-... ..., is a sthrong term; and which, in consideration of my friendship for your family, I shall pass over. Y ou doubt your son’s honour, as there wrote by ... ...er his roof, exercised the most baneful influence over all the rest of his family. He was determined at last, he 98 Catherine: A Story said, to put h... ... fashioned into a smart waistcoat (for Beinkleider’s shop was close by, in Cavendish Square). Mrs. Gretel, with many blushes, tied a fine blue riband ...

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... friend must please to look at baby. ‘Ah! You will know the friend of your family better, T ootleums,’ says Mr V eneering, nodding emotionally at that... ...loomy Eugene, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a barrister in the family. We have got a precious one.’ ‘It was forced upon me,’ said Mortimer... ...aid Mortimer, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a solicitor in the family. And we have got a precious one.’ ‘There are four of us, with our na... ...f slack water it got out to sea and drifted away . Chapter 4 THE R. WILFER FAMILY REGINALD WILFER IS A NAME with rather a grand sound, sug- gesting on... ... no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. But, the Reginald Wilfer family were of such common- place extraction and pursuits that their forefa... ... 5 BOFFIN’S BOWER OVER AGAINST A LONDON HOUSE, a corner house not far from Cavendish Square, a man with a wooden leg had sat for some years, with his ...

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... with a rough-hewn flint or a fire-pointed stick, na- ked, living in small family groups, killed by some younger man so soon as his first virile activ... ... of Babylon and Egypt and disinter legal documents, domestic accounts, and family correspondence that they could read with the com- pletest sympathy. ... ...s and recluse, that man of mystery, that disembowelled intelligence, Henry Cavendish, towards the end of the eighteenth century. So far as he was conc... ...e air to Greece and Egypt, and came back over the Balkans and Germany. His family for- 38 The World Set Free tunes, which were largely invested in ba... ...the rush of wonderful new possibilities with the financial troubles of his family. ‘I knew my father was worried,’ he admits. That cast the smallest o... ...am going to lead, and lead by my own authority. For a dozen generations my family has been a set of dummies in the hands of their advisers. Advisers! ...

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...dressed himself to the man who had shown so much curiosity about this same family, and made a pause here as if expecting some exclamation of surprise ... ...ble complacency and satisfaction. Sim, as he was called in the locksmith’s family, or Mr Simon Tappertit, as he called himself, and required all men t... ... divers wise men and matrons, on friendly terms with the locksmith and his family, even went so far as to assert, that a tumble down some half dozen r... ...ding it, when it shone into his chamber, reflect the badges of his ancient family, and take new hues and colours from their pride. But those were old ... ...ocket with the same sweet smile. ‘A very disagreeable circumstance for the family.’ ‘V ery,’ said John with a puzzled look, as if it occurred to him, ... ...eet, into the Oxford Road, and thence to his house in Welbeck Street, near Cavendish Square, whither he was attended by a few dozen idlers; of whom he...

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...VING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES AT CASTLEWOOD........................... 19 CHAPTER III WHITHER IN THE TIME OF THOMAS, THIR...

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...MR. ESMOND’S MILITARY LIFE, AND OTHER MATTERS APPER- TAINING TO THE ESMOND FAMILY........................................................................ ...s some return for the sacrifices made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappaha... ...f tobacco were all the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, C... ...ed and respected by all his fellow-citizens, how inexpressibly dear to his family, I need not say. His whole life was a benefit to all who were connec... ...tenderest care to his dependants; and bestowed on those of his immedi- ate family such a blessing of fatherly love and protection as can never be thou... ... came. Why should we say goold and write gold, and call china chayney, and Cavendish Candish, and Cholmondeley Chumley? If we call Pulteney Poltney, w...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit...

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...n and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshals... ...ung wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the co... ...e. Pet had moved up to her (she had been the subject of re- mark among her family and Mr Clennam, who were now the 29 Little Dorrit – Book One only o... ...man—such a dose!’ Mrs Flintwinch thanked him and crept into bed. CHAPTER 5 Family Affairs AS THE CITY CLOCKS struck nine on Monday morning, Mrs Clenna... ... sister, ‘come with me, if you are not too tired to walk to Harley Street, Cavendish Square.’ The air with which she threw off this distinguished addr... ...e younger sister humbled, and were shut out into unpowdered Harley Street, Cavendish Square. ‘Well?’ said Fanny, when they had gone a little way witho... ...ON THAT ESTABLISHMENT of state, the Merdle establishment in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, there was the shadow of no more common wall than the fron... ...im at all—who is unacquainted with that haunted habitation? Harley Street, Cavendish Square, was more than aware of Mr and Mrs Merdle. Intruders there... ... or five o’clock in the after- noon, when all the region of Harley Street, Cavendish Square, was resonant of carriage-wheels and double-knocks. It had...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit...

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...n and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshals... ...ung wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the co... ...e. Pet had moved up to her (she had been the subject of re- mark among her family and Mr Clennam, who were now the 29 Little Dorrit only other occupa... ...man—such a dose!’ Mrs Flintwinch thanked him and crept into bed. CHAPTER 5 Family Affairs AS THE CITY CLOCKS struck nine on Monday morning, Mrs Clenna... ... sister, ‘come with me, if you are not too tired to walk to Harley Street, Cavendish Square.’ The air with which she threw off this distinguished addr... ...e younger sister humbled, and were shut out into unpowdered Harley Street, Cavendish Square. ‘Well?’ said Fanny, when they had gone a little way witho... ...ON THAT ESTABLISHMENT of state, the Merdle establishment in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, there was the shadow of no more common wall than the fron... ...im at all—who is unacquainted with that haunted habitation? Harley Street, Cavendish Square, was more than aware of Mr and Mrs Merdle. Intruders there... ... or five o’clock in the after- noon, when all the region of Harley Street, Cavendish Square, was resonant of carriage-wheels and double-knocks. It had...

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...l years, and was viewed as the representative of sober common sense in the family. Joe and his mother did like to feel a plan quite free from Robert’s... ...ke than girl-like. Janet Brownlow was assuredly a very plain girl, but the family habit was to regard their want of beauty as rather a mark of distinc... ...hold me, for I cannot sleep. —Tennyson. “MOTHER CAREY,” to call her by the family name that her husband had given the first day she held a baby in her... ...that the most available house at Kenminster could not be got ready for the family before the winter, so that the move could not take place till the sp... ... as a poor helpless little thing, who was thrown on his hands with all her family.” After the morning’s examination and placing of the boys, there was... ...premely respectable and aristocratic but somewhat gloomy-looking houses in Cavendish Square, whose mauve plate-glass windows and link-extinguish- ers ... ...ock will not come,” said Mrs. Evelyn, opening a note declining a dinner in Cavendish Square. “His time is very much taken up,” said his mother. “It is... ...id Mrs. Evelyn with a sigh. There was a good deal more intercourse between Cavendish Square and Collingwood Street than Mother Carey had ex- pected. M... ...tinue in the Guards, while she reigned as be- fore at Fordham; letting the Cavendish Square house, which Essie viewed with a certain nervous horror. M...

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...o discovered surname, and is known throughout the doctors’ quarter between Cavendish Square and the Marylebone Road simply as Emmy. The consulting-roo... ...see. [He sits down again]. SIR PATRICK. And how is a certain distinguished family getting on under your care, Sir Ralph? B. B. Our friend Ridgeon will... ...ht again, and absolutely immune from typhoid for the rest of his life. The family were very nice about it: their gratitude was quite touching; but I s... ... Do you mean smallpox inoculation? SIR PATRICK. Yes. In the privacy of our family circle, sir, my father used to declare his belief that smallpox inoc... ...people. It only helps blackguards to blackmail their families. What are we family doctors doing half our time but conspiring with the family solicitor... ...spiring with the family solicitor to keep some rascal out of jail and some family out of disgrace? B. B. But at least it will punish him. SIR PATRICK....

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...ar marked “Only 6 1/2d.”—That catty box, on which was the epigraph “Strong Family Congo only 3s. 9d,” was from the country of Confutzee—that heap of d... ...he world—in all the cities of mankind there is One Home whither men of one family may resort. Over the entire world spreads a vast brotherhood, suffer... ...- happy Josephine by her former marriage with a French gentle- man of good family. Having a smack of the old blood in him, Eugene’s manners were much ... ...t to parental command, is that earthly angel, a well-bred woman of genteel family! Instead of indulging in splenetic refusals or vain regrets for her ... ...rshal, his father, married another sister. I believe he was footman in the family, before Napoleon princified him.” “No, no, he was second coachman,” ... ... tion, he was told to drive to Madame Crinoline’s, the eminent milliner in Cavendish Square. On requesting to know whether he should accompany her Lad...

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...as well acquainted with Mr. Henry Hervey, one of the branches of the noble family of that name, who had been quartered at Lichfield as an officer of t... ...odstock-street, near Hanover-square, and afterwards in Castle-street, near Cavendish- square. His tragedy being by this time, as he thought, completel... ...le not true; and, from a respectable gentleman con- nected with the lady’s family, I have received such information and remarks, as joined to my 62 B... ...is faithful negro servant, who came 80 Boswell’s Life of Johnson into his family about a fortnight after the dismal event. These sufferings were aggr... ...timacy to the last hour of his life. When Johnson lived in Castle- street, Cavendish-square, he used frequently to visit two ladies, who lived opposit... ...as not the less ready to love Mr. Langton, for his being of a very ancient family; for I have heard him say, with pleasure, ‘Langton, Sir, has a grant... ...he Second; and Cardinal Stephen Langton, in King John’s reign, was of this family.’ Mr. Langton afterwards went to pursue his studies at Trinity Colle... ... 2. Greenwich. 3. Woodstock-street, near Hanover-square. 4. Castle-street, Cavendish-square, No. 6. 5. Strand. 6. Boswell-Court. 7. Strand, again. 8. ...

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...ittle know how remote from public opinion and how full of their own little family and party affairs British governments, both Liberal and Unionist, st... ... the press because no editor of a paper or magazine in- tended for general family reading could admit into his columns the baldest narration of the st... ...the assassin of Caesar was a hero, why not the assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish, Presi- dents Lincoln and McKinley, and Sir Curzon Wyllie? Here i... ...though no one knows better than a mag- istrate that a single ill-conducted family may demor- alize a whole street, no magistrate can imprison or other... ...bad man. So let Brother Daniels marry us to keep all the rottenness in the family. What do you say, Feemy? FEEMY. Thank you; but when I marry I’ll mar...

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...the Cream Tarts, who is now a comfort- able householder in Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square. The number, for obvious reasons, I suppress. Those who c... ...her; “you were always cleverer than I. And, anyway, you know my motto: The family before all.” “Yes, Charlie,” she returned, taking his hand in hers, ... ...“I know your motto better than you know it yourself. ‘And Clara before the family!’ Is not that the second part of it? Indeed, you are the best of bro... ...love you dearly.” Mr. Pendragon got up, looking a little confused by these family endearments. “I had better not be seen,” said he. “I understand my p... ...andeleur, sir, has taken away all my appetite for the other members of her family.” “And do you fancy, General V andeleur,” retorted Charlie, “that be... ...arrival, seemed in some confusion, as if a catastrophe had happened in the family; and the ser- vants clustered together in the hall, and were unable,...

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... bodies so closely resembled in gen- eral appearance certain nulliporae (a family of hard calcareous sea-plants), that in lately looking hastily over ... ...tile climate the labour of two days is sufficient to support a man and his family for the whole week. April 14th. — Leaving Socego, we rode to another... ...s were or- namented by the Cabbage Palm — one of the most beautiful of its family. With a stem so narrow that it might be clasped with the two hands, ... ...l the fireflies, which I caught here, belonged to the Lampyridae (in which family the English glow- worm is included), and the greater number of speci... ...g away the body. But I stopped both tyrant and prey.* The genus, or rather family, of Epeira, is here char- acterized by many singular forms; some spe... ...e introduced in the year 1502; eighty-six years afterwards, in the time of Cavendish, it is known that they were exceedingly numerous. More than a cen...

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...man has an advan- tage, not to be estimated, who is born, as I was, into a family where the religion is simple and rational; who is trained in the the... ...ay I commenced accordingly to take a little of every food provided for the family, constantly saying to myself: ‘The Power that created the stomach mu... ...in which I was about to float, I turned with them towards my childhood, my family, my country, all that was dear and sacred to me: the inflexible curr... ...sacred to me: the inflexible current of my thought was too strong—parents, family, memory, beliefs, it forced me to let go of everything. The investig... ...God was praying in, with, and for me. About this time my father called the family to attend prayers; I attended, but paid no regard to what he said in... ...erything I see has [227] The Lancet, July 6 and 13, 1895, reprinted as the Cavendish Lecture, on Dreamy Mental States, London, Bailliere, 1895. They h...