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Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.

All the rest he died possessed of, he bequeathed to Peggotty; whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will and testament.

Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed.

He hoped that Mary would forget his shoes, but the hope was blighted; she coated them thoroughly with tallow, as was the custom, and brought them out.

She was certain that some romantic sorrow had blighted his life and made him hard and bitter, and she felt that what he needed was the love of a good woman.

I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen impostor Pumblechook.

When these hot fits were over, however, he would rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror which lies at the roots of his soul.

A sweep of chilly air passed by, rustling all the leaves and snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.

There was only one thing in the world that was a certain bulwark against any calamity which fate could bring, and that was money.

But a great cry, which was audible even above the wind and water, rose from the shore at this moment; the sea, sweeping over the rolling wreck, made a clean breach, and carried men, spars, casks, planks, bulwarks, heaps of such toys, into the boiling surge.

He was a burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly large head, and a corresponding large hand.

The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy stick in his hand.

And yet my thoughts were idle; not intent on the calamity that weighed upon my heart, but idly loitering near it.

It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.

Jip would bark and caper round us, and go on before, and look back on the landing, breathing short, to see that we were coming.

He wanted to shout and to sing and to kiss her and to caper about the lawn and then run tell everyone, black and white, that she loved him.

The old wintry branches of chandeliers in the room where the mouldering table was spread had been lighted while we were out, and Miss Havisham was in her chair and waiting for me.

Then the hardwood floors had shone like glass, and overhead the chandelier with its hundreds of tiny prisms had caught and reflected every ray of the dozens of candles it bore, flinging them, like gleams from diamonds, flame and sapphire about the room.

The sense that he was watched, that craft was employed to circumvent his errant tastes, added piquancy to a journey so entirely sentimental, so long as the danger was of no fearful sort.

The moment a candle was lighted there was a general rush upon the owner of it; a struggle and a gallant defence followed, but the candle was soon knocked down or blown out, and then there was a glad clamor of laughter and a new chase.

THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.

She fancied, however, that her request had been complied with, and that the pen she could not have held was in her hand.

I complied, in a very uncomfortable state, and with a warm shooting all over me, as if my apprehensions were breaking out into buds.

Oliver complied; marvelling where the people could be found to read such a great number of books as seemed to be written to make the world wiser.

In the seventh week, there came a telegram from Colonel Hampton himself, and then a letter, a kind, dignified letter of condolence.

With these expressions of condolence, the fat gentleman shook hands with both ladies, and drawing up a chair, inquired how they found themselves.

Thomas Traddles, to our present abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to the occasion, you will confer a Boon.

It was announced that the battle would be called the Battle of the Windmill, and that Napoleon had created a new decoration, the Order of the Green Banner, which he had conferred upon himself.

She remembered all too vividly her struggles during those first days of Reconstruction, her fears that the soldiers and the Carpetbaggers would confiscate her money and her property.

He made no answer: being occupied mentally bewailing the loss of the flute, which had been confiscated for the use of the county: so Nancy passed on to the next cell, and knocked there.

They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation.

She made a great point of being so near the river, in case of a conflagration; and I suppose really did find some satisfaction in that circumstance.

The engines were soon upon the spot, but the dry wood burned with great fury, and it was impossible to arrest the conflagration until the stack had been entirely consumed.

And I have no doubt she did; or that he loved her, however strange it may appear; though, to be sure, they were a congenial couple.

He hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his congenial hunt.

I was brought up in the freer, less conventional atmosphere of South Australia, and this English life, with its proprieties and its primness, is not congenial to me.

In short, I could learn nothing but that she was gone; all the rest, for eight long months, was left to conjecture.

It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side.

What her last illness was, I am not certain: I conjecture, they died of the same thing, a kind of fever, slow at its commencement, but incurable, and rapidly consuming life towards the close.

As soon as we lost the sound of their feet we quit chasing, and went down and stirred up the constables.

We had all risen to our feet, our prisoner breathing hard, with a stalwart constable on each side of him.

On enquiry we found that the constable was in bed, and we were shown into a little front parlour to await his coming.

Grimwig lost no time in carrying this notice into effect upon the blushing girl; and the example, being contagious, was followed both by the doctor and Mr.

As Uncle Peter told her about them, Scarlett felt that Atlanta must be a city of the wounded, for there were general hospitals, contagious hospitals, convalescent hospitals without number.

If he looks out through the glass, the boldest boy (Steerforth excepted) stops in the middle of a shout or yell, and becomes contemplative.

Joseph objected at first; she was too much in earnest, however, to suffer contradiction; and at last he placed his hat on his head, and walked grumbling forth.

Drummle and I then sat snorting at one another for an hour, while the Grove engaged in indiscriminate contradiction, and finally the promotion of good feeling was declared to have gone ahead at an amazing rate.

Judge Thatcher sent messages of hope and encouragement from the cave, but they conveyed no real cheer.

Sleary, saving for the first instant, conveyed no more expression into his locomotive eye than into his fixed one.

Bumble felt that it rather tended to convey a reflection on the honour of the parish; the latter gentleman thought it advisable to change the subject.

Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house.

War romances, war weddings, deaths in hospitals and on the field, incidents of camp and battle and march, gallantry, cowardice, humor, sadness, deprivation and hope.

If it were a girl, it was to inherit the money unconditionally; but if a boy, only on the stipulation that in his minority he should never have stained his name with any public act of dishonour, meanness, cowardice, or wrong.

With the first ray of light that struggled through the crevices in the shutters, Oliver arose, and again unbarred the door.

Ordinarily one could find half a dozen bits of candle stuck around in the crevices of this vestibule, left there by tourists; but there were none now.

At first it seemed that green things would never cease pushing their way through the earth, in the grass, in the beds, even in the crevices of the walls.

He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder.

As his last act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death.

I am too well aware that when, in the inscrutable decrees of Fate, you were reserved for me, it is possible you may have been reserved for one, destined, after a protracted struggle, at length to fall a victim to pecuniary involvements of a complicated nature.

If you and Miss Bennet will defer yours till I am out of the room, I shall be very thankful; and then you may say whatever you like of me.

Not to make Joe uneasy by talking too much, even if I had been able to talk much, I deferred asking him about Miss Havisham until next day.

And with this admirable discretion did she defer the assurance of her finding their mutual relatives more disagreeable than ever, and of her being particularly disgusted with his mother, till they were more in private.

The thunder was rolling into distance, and the rain was pouring down like a deluge, when the door of his room opened.

It was a passion to get her affairs in order before she had to retire behind doors, to have as much money as possible in case the deluge broke upon her again, to have a stout levee of cash against the rising tide of Yankee hate.