Brownlows, 2. köideW. Blackwood, 1868 |
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Page 86 - He will always be able to read the grudge of those who have borne the burden and heat of the day...
Page 89 - I said," said Mr Brownlow ; and, after the habit of guilty men, he began immediately to defend himself. " I trust," he said, unconsciously following the old precedent, " that I have a right to do what I like with my own.
Page 197 - Really, Mr. Carlyle,' replied my friend, 'you are the last man in the world from whom I should have expected such an observation. Look at your own book on Cromwell...
Page 93 - There is Brown, who has been years and years in the office — there never was a steadier fellow. I don't remember that he ever lost a day — except when he had that fever, you know; but twenty pound a-year increase was as much as ever was given to him." "When he had the fever they were very kind to him," said Mrs Wrinkell; "and, after all, Mr Brownlow has a right to do what he likes with his own."
Page 114 - The life aboard ship, however, was an easy and, in some ways, a luxurious one — too luxurious for a young man who had his way to make in the world. Premature comfort is a deadly enervating thing. I remember considering my own future — I stood upon the poop with a raging thunderstorm around me — and seeing very clearly that one or two more such voyages would sap my simple habits and make me unfit for the hard struggle which any sort of success...
Page 32 - Thanks," said Jack, briefly ; his heart was full, poor fellow, and to tell the truth he said even that much reluctantly, but honesty drew it out of him. He felt that his father was his friend, and had not been dealing hardly with him. And then he got up and went to the window, and looked out upon the unsuspicious shrubberies full of better thoughts. Make an end of it ! make an end of the best part of his life — make an end of her probably. Yes, it was a very easy thing to say. " I will not ask...
Page 51 - ... said Nancy, which was so near the truth that Mrs Fennell trembled in her chair. But Nancy did not feel disposed to go to extremities, and as Mr Brownlow entered she disappeared. He had grown pale on his way up the stairs. The moment had come when, perhaps, he must hear his own secret discovery proclaimed as it were on the housetop, and it cannot be denied that he had grown pale. "Well?
Page 48 - I'm not one as can be trusted," said Nancy. " You was to go directly, that was what she said." " Is she ill ? " said Mr Brownlow. " No, she ain't ill. She's crooked ; but she's always crooked since ever I knew her. You was to come directly ; that's all as I know.
Page 126 - ... and I will take care of you, by heaven ! Nobody shall ever come between us. A fellow may think and think when he doesn't know his own mind : and it's easy for a girl like you to talk of the last time. I tell you it is not the last time — it is the first time. I don't care a straw for anything else in the world — not in comparison with you. Pamela, don't cry ; we are going to be together all our life.
Page 14 - He had not even as yet begun to take his own case into consideration. He was simply intent upon his own way for the moment, and not disposed to brook any contradiction, or even inquiry. No particular intention, either prudent or imprudent, made his thoughts definite as he went on ; no aims were in his mind. A certain soft intoxication only possessed him. Somehow to Jack, as to everybody else, his own case was entirely exceptional, and not to be judged by ordinary rules.