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Monte Irvin, alderman of the city and prospective Lord Mayor of London, paced restlessly from end to end of the well-appointed library of his house in Prince's Gate. Between his teeth he gripped the stump of a burnt-out cigar. A tiny spaniel lay beside the fire, his beady black eyes following the nervous movements of the master o...
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“He is an idle vagabond!” the mayor of the good town of Southampton said, in high wrath—“a ne'er do well, and an insolent puppy; and as to you, Mistress Alice, if I catch you exchanging words with him again, ay, or nodding to him, or looking as if in any way you were conscious of his presence, I will put y...
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In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, ...
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I was born in the year one, of the present or Christian hera, and am, in consquints, seven-and-thirty years old. My mamma called me Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush, in compliment to several noble families, and to a sellybrated coachmin whom she knew, who wore a yellow livry, and drove the Lord Mayor of London. Why she gev ...
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Category： Author：Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代
Reckless stubborn personality heng Chad once drunk before making a big mistake when I was younger, sold only to a sailor.Years later he became a mayor of casterbridge, his wife and daughters suddenly appear, family reunion, he also found a capable Scots do assistant.But his character weakness crushed him again.He is down and out step b...
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I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position to offer, I could not hide all traces of my anxiety.
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Category： Author：Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代
《（Far from the madding crowd）》Published in 1874, is the hardy's first successful long, is he after a series of wessex countryside as the background of the best novels of the first.These novels include the return of the native to record "(1878)," the mayor of casterbridge "(1886)," Tess of the "(1891), and" Jude the obscure "(1896)....
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Category： Author：Wilkie Collins
The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is — dancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from their port. The ships of the expedition are two in number — the W...
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