I hailed the son, and asked him my direction. He pointed loosely west and north-west, muttered an i...
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esteem.' 'A word is enough, Mr Pitman,' said Joseph, with one of his Oriental reverences. Half an...
Pitman turned pale, but it was with manly indignation. 'You are the man!' he cried. 'You very wicke...
here was the country buzzing about him, and young ladies already proposing pleasure parties to surr...
halfpenny! I know I'm an ass, and you may laugh at me to your heart's delight.' And as Julia's lips...
the accident; a man of your humane disposition ought to be delighted.' 'Then, if that's so,' Morri...
again.' Harker glanced, from the depths of his humiliation, at the speaker. He beheld a powerful, ...
glass of fair, cold water) made up a semblance of a morning meal, and then down he sat undauntedly ...
brightened up Forsyth, and drunk a devil of a lot of most indifferent liquor. Let's top off with a ...
sometimes reason with him; they would point out to him how impossible it was to paint by gaslight, ...
he felt himself a man at last; and the muse who presides over the police romance, a lady presumably...
forgive you, it's a lemonade.' 'But, O, Finsbury, what are we to do with it?' walled the artist, l...
note.' Between the possibility of being hanged in all innocence, and the certainty of a public and...
Pitman did not reply, but continued to gaze disconsolately on his image in the glass. 'Do you know...
'Yes, it's a--rather a rough day,' said the artist; and then, feeling that he must change the conve...