The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... Miss Pross an accidental avenging angel , was censured , as if Dickens , here , had not restrained his invention . But he justly replied that he wished to contrast Madame Defarge's mean death in a grotesque scuffle , with the stately ...
... Miss Pross an accidental avenging angel , was censured , as if Dickens , here , had not restrained his invention . But he justly replied that he wished to contrast Madame Defarge's mean death in a grotesque scuffle , with the stately ...
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... Miss Pross at home ? " Possibly at home , but of a certainty impossible for hand- maid to anticipate intentions of Miss Pross , as to admission or denial of the fact . " As I am at home myself , " said Mr. Lorry , " I'll go up - stairs ...
... Miss Pross at home ? " Possibly at home , but of a certainty impossible for hand- maid to anticipate intentions of Miss Pross , as to admission or denial of the fact . " As I am at home myself , " said Mr. Lorry , " I'll go up - stairs ...
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... Miss Pross , the wild red woman , strong of hand , whose acquaintance he had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover , and had since improved . 66 " I should have thought-- " Mr. Lorry began . " Pooh ! You'd have thought ! " said Miss ...
... Miss Pross , the wild red woman , strong of hand , whose acquaintance he had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover , and had since improved . 66 " I should have thought-- " Mr. Lorry began . " Pooh ! You'd have thought ! " said Miss ...
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... Miss- Pross . " Do dozens come for that purpose ? " " Hundreds , " said Miss Pross . It was characteristic of this lady ( as of some other people before her time and since ) that whenever her original pro- position was questioned , she ...
... Miss- Pross . " Do dozens come for that purpose ? " " Hundreds , " said Miss Pross . It was characteristic of this lady ( as of some other people before her time and since ) that whenever her original pro- position was questioned , she ...
Page 109
Charles Dickens . 109 MISS PROSS'S BROTHER SOLOMON . eccentricity , one of those unselfish creatures - found only among women - who will , for pure love and admiration , bind themselves willing slaves , to youth when they ... Miss Pross . "
Charles Dickens . 109 MISS PROSS'S BROTHER SOLOMON . eccentricity , one of those unselfish creatures - found only among women - who will , for pure love and admiration , bind themselves willing slaves , to youth when they ... Miss Pross . "
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Page 12 - WONDERFUL fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!