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Page 242 - ... first, but when he understood he appreciated the motives upon which Captain Farmington had acted. He begged of him to accept, for a time at least, of the little accommodations and comforts he could offer him as his guest. To this proposal the captain turned a deaf ear, and resolutely proposed leaving him with writing sufficient to enable him to pay him the sum he would have gained by letting his lodgings to a stranger. To this Matthew reluctantly consented. Mrs. Farmington, too, made known her...
Page 288 - Narcissus, therefore, went down with a ten-pound note iu his pocket, a desk full of certificates of good conduct from the ladies and the gentlemen-in-black, of the Dorcas and Tract-distributing Societies, and an inordinate opinion of his own superior abilities. Before we enter on the university career of this over-virtuous and over-clever youth, it will be as well to say a few words about the fate of his half-sister, Julia Finish. She had, through the hard rubs of a subordinate situation in a school,...
Page 158 - You may observe a tall, pale prelate, with a benevolent countenance and an eye beaming with talent. That tall, pale man, in the becoming dress of his order, was James Pauperly, the poor exhibitioner of Hall, Oxford — now he is James, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of . The noble lord who has just crossed the house and is shaking hands with him is now Baron , he was Ploddington of Ch. Ch. — he sits as a retired Judge.
Page 3 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 105 - ... watched them to guard against a sudden charge. He had, in this way, reached the mill itself, and was crossing the narrow plank over the mill-tail, when he was assailed in the rear by a very aged woman, apparently the mother of the miller, who, though dressed in the sober garb peculiar to her sect, and scarcely able to utter her words distinctly from age and loss of teeth, abused him as much and as rapidly as she possibly could. As she stood on the end of the plank, and there was only room for...
Page 146 - Ploddington endeavoured to reason away the objection in his case, but Pauperly was firm, and his mother applauded his firmness. At the same time she told him that she should be happy to see his new acquaintance at their lodgings whenever he was disposed to favour them with his company. Ploddington, finding it was useless to argue the matter further, was glad to consent to this arrangement, and knowing that they could mutually benefit one another, he spent many of his evenings at Pauperly's.
Page 154 - DUL, honoris cansti, took his seat among the Doctors, he was greeted with the 'warmest cheers from all parts of the theatre. When this was finished the Public Orator and the Professor of Poetry went through the parts assigned them, making long Latin speeches much to the edification of the undergraduates, who would not listen to them, and of the ladies, who did not understand one word that was uttered. Then came the Latin and English essays — next the Latin verses, recited by Ploddington, the winner...
Page 242 - The poverty of the poor is misery, but it is endurable misery; it can bear the sight of men. The poverty of the formerly affluent is unendurable ; it avoids the light of the day, and shuns the sympathy of those who would relieve it ; it preys upon the heart, and corrodes the mind ; it screws up every nerve to such an extremity of tension, that one cool look — the averted eye even of a casual acquaintance known in prosperity — snaps the chord at once, and leaves the self-despised object of it...
Page 142 - Ploddington, his opponent, had passed so excellent an examination, that he could not allow him to leave the hall without thanking him publicly, and begging his acceptance of a few books. What a happy joyful evening was that to the mother and her son — the widow and...
Page 148 - The sight of his mother, however — the knowledge that she would he greatly and grievously disappointed at the failure of the hopes and expectations which she had formed of him, urged him on— on — on, until human nature could bear no more. His hands trembled, his eyes became dim, his voice lost its cheerful tones, and one day, as he sat reading to his mother, a giddiness attacked his brain, his eyes lost the power of vision, and he fell back fainting in his chair. His mother in great alarm sent...