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...nes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens VOLUME ONE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...isings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens VOLUME ONE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication V o... ...isings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...other; that was a’ a matther of opinion”; and fell to looking at the fire, staring round the room, and whistling a little. On my reverting to some oth... ...d then falling from the top of the Monument by acci- dent, there came, one morning, by the general post, a black- bordered letter to inform him how hi... ... a round game; the players see little or noth- ing of their cards at first starting; gains may be great—and so may losses. The run of luck went agains... ...sually are, or need to be. Mr Ralph Nickleby sat in his private office one morning, ready dressed to walk abroad. He wore a bottle-green spencer over ... ...nious actor, Mr Punch: whose brilliant example, both in the fashion of his weapons and their use, this branch of the executive occasionally follows. S... ...ss. ‘“It’s not a bad idea though,” said the baron, feeling the edge of the weapon; “a man killing himself because he has too much money .” ‘“Pooh!” sa...

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...OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual Fri... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...ut it in his pocket. ‘Lizzie!’ The girl turned her face towards him with a start, and rowed in silence. Her face was very pale. He was a hook-nosed ma... ...ner?’ ‘No,’ said the other. In so surly a tone that the man, after a blank stare, acknowledged it with the retort: ‘—Arn’ t been eating nothing as has... ...d have now in my pocket a letter from your sister Cecilia, re- ceived this morning—received three months after her mar- riage, poor child!—in which sh... ... the remembrance gave a relish to the rum; ‘you were doing this one Sunday morning when I took you out, because I didn’t go the exact way you wanted, ... ... but, from the impenetrable cap and snorting armour of the stoney aunt all weapons rebound powerless. Another objectionable circumstance is, that the ... ...s, and with which he stood holding out his smeared hand as if it held some weapon and had just struck a mortal blow, made her so afraid of him that sh...

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...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Chil... ...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s Hist... ...onic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Por... ...ne another, as savage people usually do; and they always fought with these weapons. They were very fond of horses. The standard of Kent was the pictur... ... the strong Ro man swords and armour were too much for the weaker British weapons in close conflict. The Britons lost the day. The wife and daughter ... ... nighted at the doors of Danish cottages, often went in for shelter until morning; and that Charles Dickens 27 Danes and Saxons sat by the red fire,... ... to expiate her guilt. As if a church, with a steeple reaching to the very stars, would have been any sign of true repentance for the blood of the poo... ...lds; preventing the seed from being sown in the ground; causing famine and starvation; leaving only heaps of ruin and smoking ashes, where they had fo... ...ery hill within sight of Durham, signal fires were seen to blaze. When the morning dawned, the En glish, who had assembled in great strength, forced ...

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...Little Dorrit Book One Poverty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little... ...Little Dorrit Book One Poverty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit,... ...c Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...time, before or since. Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had stared at the fervid sky, and been stared at in return, until a staring hab... ...n return, until a staring habit had become universal there. Strangers were stared out of coun- tenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, s... ... king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright—pointed weapons with little surface to betray them. They had no depth or change; th... ... are placed, what cool refreshment of sea breeze there was at seven in the morning. Mr Meagles’s companion re- sumed the conversation. 22 Charles Dic... ...ut; and the hot night was on Marseilles; and through it the caravan of the morning, all dispersed, went their appointed ways. And thus ever by day and... ...have been resolved by his impatience. He looked about him for an offensive weapon, caught up the snuffers, and, be- fore applying them to the cabbage-...

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...kens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Little Dorrit Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...time, before or since. Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had stared at the fervid sky, and been stared at in return, until a staring hab... ...n return, until a staring habit had become universal there. Strangers were stared out of coun- tenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, s... ... king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright—pointed weapons with little surface to betray them. They had no depth or change; th... ... are placed, what cool refreshment of sea breeze there was at seven in the morning. Mr Meagles’s companion re- sumed the conversation. 22 Charles Dic... ...ut; and the hot night was on Marseilles; and through it the caravan of the morning, all dispersed, went their appointed ways. And thus ever by day and... ...have been resolved by his impatience. He looked about him for an offensive weapon, caught up the snuffers, and, be- fore applying them to the cabbage-...

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...GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectat... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...nning to cry, was Pip. “Hold your noise!” cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. “Keep sti... ... your name!” said the man. “Quick!” “Pip, sir.” “Once more,” said the man, staring at me. “Give it mouth!” “Pip. Pip, sir.” “Show us where you live,” ... ...f the stone, and went on in these fearful terms: “Y ou bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles. You bring the lot to me, at that... ...bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning. “Say Lord strike you dead if you don’t!” said the man. I said so, ... ...ore she could look round. It was horrible to think that I had provided the weapon, however undesignedly, but I could hardly think otherwise. I suffere... ... softly left her place, and with many small artifices coaxed the dangerous weapon away. Mrs. Pocket finishing her orange at about the same time, and n...