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Long says that Netherfield is takenby a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he camedown on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so muchdelighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that heis to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are tobe in the house by the end of next week.<>
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of afortnight.<>
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Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to withmuch more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at theend of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude byScotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who,with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly indancing at one end of the room.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "MY DEAR FRIEND,--"If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me,we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives,for a whole day's tete-a-tete between two women can never end without aquarrel.<>
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Phillips was quite awed by such anexcess of good breeding; but her contemplation of one stranger was soonput to an end by exclamations and inquiries about the other; of whom,however, she could only tell her nieces what they already knew, thatMr. Denny had brought him from London, and that he was to have alieutenant's commission in the ----shire.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth allowed that he had given a very rational account of it, andthey continued talking together, with mutual satisfaction till supperput an end to cards, and gave the rest of the ladies their share of Mr.Wickham's attentions.<>
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Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibuleto watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth openthe door and with quick step pass her towards the staircase, than sheentered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself inwarm terms on the happy prospect or their nearer connection.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Chapter 24Miss Bingley's letter arrived, and put an end to doubt.<>
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The gentleman experienced some change offeeling; he drew back his chair, took a newspaper from the table, andglancing over it, said, in a colder voice:"Are you pleased with Kent?"A short dialogue on the subject of the country ensued, on either sidecalm and concise--and soon put an end to by the entrance of Charlotteand her sister, just returned from her walk.<>
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Collins did not think it right to press the subject, from the danger ofraising expectations which might only end in disappointment; for in heropinion it admitted not of a doubt, that all her friend's dislike wouldvanish, if she could suppose him to be in her power.<>
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It was some consolationto think that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after thenext--and, a still greater, that in less than a fortnight she shouldherself be with Jane again, and enabled to contribute to the recovery ofher spirits, by all that affection could do.<>
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Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearanceof good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married awoman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early intheir marriage put an end to all real affection for her.<>
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Gardiner wereengaged with their children, was now put an end to by the approachof the whole party.<>
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The sanguine hope ofgood, however, which the benevolence of her heart suggested had not yetdeserted her; she still expected that it would all end well, and thatevery morning would bring some letter, either from Lydia or her father,to explain their proceedings, and, perhaps, announce their marriage.<>
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My mother was taken ill immediately, and the whole house insuch confusion!""Oh! Jane," cried Elizabeth, "was there a servant belonging to it whodid not know the whole story before the end of the day?""I do not know.<>
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If you are a goodgirl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end ofthem.<>
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Mr. Wickhamhad received his commission before he left London, and he was to joinhis regiment at the end of a fortnight.<>
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And then, you know, when oncethey get together, there is no end of it.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "And this," said she, "is the end of all his friend's anxiouscircumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! thehappiest, wisest, most reasonable end!"In a few minutes she was joined by Bingley, whose conference with herfather had been short and to the purpose.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so.<>
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I shall offer to pay him to-morrow; he will rant and storm abouthis love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured inher answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind.<>
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While the aristocracy of the place--the Bulders, and Clubbers, andSnipes--were thus preserving their dignity at the upper end of the room,the other classes of society were imitating their example in other partsof it.<>
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The 'poor fellow' was proof against flattery; the moreMr. Winkle tried to get nearer him, the more he sidled away; and,notwithstanding all kinds of coaxing and wheedling, there were Mr.Winkle and the horse going round and round each other for ten minutes,at the end of which time each was at precisely the same distance fromthe other as when they first commenced--an unsatisfactory sort of thingunder any circumstances, but particularly so in a lonely road, where noassistance can be procured.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Another game, with a similar result, was followed by a revoke from theunlucky Miller; on which the fat gentleman burst into a state of highpersonal excitement which lasted until the conclusion of the game, whenhe retired into a corner, and remained perfectly mute for one hourand twenty-seven minutes; at the end of which time he emerged from hisretirement, and offered Mr. Pickwick a pinch of snuff with the air ofa man who had made up his mind to a Christian forgiveness of injuriessustained.<>
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We fancy, too, that we can discern at thevery end of the notes, some indistinct reference to 'broiled bones'; andthen the words 'cold' 'without' occur: but as any hypothesis we couldfound upon them must necessarily rest upon mere conjecture, we are notdisposed to indulge in any of the speculations to which they may giverise.<>
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The imperativenecessity of ousting his rival by some means or other, flashed quicklyupon him, and he immediately resolved to adopt certain proceedingstending to that end and object, without a moment's delay.<>
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Had Mr. Pickwick been alone, these multiplied obstacles wouldhave completely put an end to the pursuit at once, but old Wardle wasnot to be so easily daunted; and he laid about him with such heartygood-will, cuffing this man, and pushing that; strapping a buckle here,and taking in a link there, that the chaise was ready in a muchshorter time than could reasonably have been expected, under so manydifficulties.<>
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It was impossibleto make any great way against such obstacles united; it was hard uponone o'clock already; and nearly two hours were consumed in getting tothe end of the stage.<>
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Three or four lumbering wagons,each with a pile of goods beneath its ample canopy, about the height ofthe second-floor window of an ordinary house, were stowed away beneatha lofty roof which extended over one end of the yard; and another, whichwas probably to commence its journey that morning, was drawn out intothe open space.<>
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Twoor three gigs and chaise-carts were wheeled up under different littlesheds and pent-houses; and the occasional heavy tread of a cart-horse,or rattling of a chain at the farther end of the yard, announcedto anybody who cared about the matter, that the stable lay in thatdirection.<>
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He paused at the end of a secondpassage, and held out his hand.<>
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Hold still, Sir; wot's the use o' runnin' artera man as has made his lucky, and got to t'other end of the Borough bythis time?'Mr. Pickwick's mind, like those of all truly great men, was opento conviction.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) A stout country lad opened a door at the end of the passage, and thethree friends entered a long, low-roofed room, furnished with a largenumber of high-backed leather-cushioned chairs, of fantastic shapes, andembellished with a great variety of old portraits and roughly-colouredprints of some antiquity.<>
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At the upper end of the room was a table, witha white cloth upon it, well covered with a roast fowl, bacon, ale, andet ceteras; and at the table sat Mr. Tupman, looking as unlike a man whohad taken his leave of the world, as possible.<>
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At the end of the manuscript was written, in another hand, this note:--[The unhappy man whose ravings are recorded above, was a melancholyinstance of the baneful results of energies misdirected in early life,and excesses prolonged until their consequences could never be repaired.<>
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(Here Mr. Winkle carried the interesting boy, screaming and struggling,to the farther end of the apartment.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) "'Cheer up, old girl," said Tom, patting the bay mare on the neck withthe end of his whip.<>
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But I cansay that Tom had no sooner finished speaking, than she pricked up herears, and started forward at a speed which made the clay-coloured gigrattle until you would have supposed every one of the red spokes weregoing to fly out on the turf of Marlborough Downs; and even Tom, whipas he was, couldn't stop or check her pace, until she drew up of her ownaccord, before a roadside inn on the right-hand side of the way, abouthalf a quarter of a mile from the end of the Downs.<>
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Of any other queer chair,Tom would only have thought it was a queer chair, and there would havebeen an end of the matter; but there was something about this particularchair, and yet he couldn't tell what it was, so odd and so unlike anyother piece of furniture he had ever seen, that it seemed to fascinatehim.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) A chorus of bystanders took up the shout of Count Smorltork's praise,shook their heads sagely, and unanimously cried, 'Very!'As the enthusiasm in Count Smorltork's favour ran very high, his praisesmight have been sung until the end of the festivities, if the foursomething-ean singers had not ranged themselves in front of a smallapple-tree, to look picturesque, and commenced singing their nationalsongs, which appeared by no means difficult of execution, inasmuch asthe grand secret seemed to be, that three of the something-ean singersshould grunt, while the fourth howled.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Here I am,' said the editor, from the remotest end of the room; farbeyond all hope of food, unless something was done for him by thehostess.<>
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Well, sir, I have been thinking that if you were waiting in the backgarden alone, and I was to let you in, at the door which opens into it,from the end of the passage, at exactly half-past eleven o'clock, youwould be just in the very moment of time to assist me in frustrating thedesigns of this bad man, by whom I have been unfortunately ensnared.<>
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Swear! Such trains of oaths would come rolling and pealing over the way,sometimes, when he was denouncing the idleness of the bony apprenticewith the thin legs, that Nathaniel Pipkin would shake in his shoeswith horror, and the hair of the pupils' heads would stand on end withfright.<>
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Nathaniel Pipkin could hear him growling away like anold mastiff with a sore throat; and whenever the unfortunate apprenticewith the thin legs came into the room, so surely did old Lobbs commenceswearing at him in a most Saracenic and ferocious manner, thoughapparently with no other end or object than that of easing his bosom bythe discharge of a few superfluous oaths.<>
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SHOWING HOW DODSON AND FOGG WERE MEN OF BUSINESS, ANDTHEIR CLERKS MEN OF PLEASURE; AND HOW AN AFFECTING INTERVIEW TOOK PLACEBETWEEN Mr. WELLER AND HIS LONG-LOST PARENT; SHOWING ALSO WHAT CHOICESPIRITS ASSEMBLED AT THE MAGPIE AND STUMP, AND WHAT A CAPITAL CHAPTERTHE NEXT ONE WILL BEIn the ground-floor front of a dingy house, at the very farthest end ofFreeman's Court, Cornhill, sat the four clerks of Messrs.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I beg your pardon, Sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'and I am very sorryto disturb the other gentlemen, too, but I come on very particularbusiness; and if you will suffer me to detain you at this end of theroom for five minutes, I shall be very much obliged to you.<>
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The waiting--the hope--the disappointment--the fear--themisery--the poverty--the blight on his hopes, and end to his career--thesuicide perhaps, or the shabby, slipshod drunkard.<>
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As he spoke, he seated himselfat the other end of the table, and, throwing off his cloak and cap,disclosed his features.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'And now, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, consulting a large double-facedsilver watch that hung at the end of the copper chain.<>
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At these words, Mr. Job Trotter inserted an end of the pink handkerchiefinto the corner of each eye, one after the other, and began to weepcopiously.<>
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The lady was at the upper end of the room.<>
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The table wasadorned with piles of papers; and above the farther end of it, appearedthe head and shoulders of Mr. Jinks, who was busily engaged in lookingas busy as possible.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The consultation having lasted about ten minutes, Mr. Jinks retired tohis end of the table; and the magistrate, with a preparatory cough, drewhimself up in his chair, and was proceeding to commence his address,when Mr. Pickwick interposed.<>
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Desiring Mr. Pickwick to walk to the upper end of thelittle apartment, and holding his hand upon the half-closed door, thathe might be able to effect an immediate escape, in case there was theleast tendency to a display of hostilities, Mr. Nupkins expressed hisreadiness to hear the communication, whatever it might be.<>
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At a little distance, stood Mr. Tupman withindignant countenance, carefully held back by his two younger friends;at the farther end of the room were Mr. Nupkins, Mrs.<>
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WHICH CONTAINS A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF THEACTION OF BARDELL AGAINST PICKWICKHaving accomplished the main end and object of his journey, by theexposure of Jingle, Mr. Pickwick resolved on immediately returning toLondon, with the view of becoming acquainted with the proceedings whichhad been taken against him, in the meantime, by Messrs.<>
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Ven you'rea married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as youdon't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much,to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of thealphabet, is a matter o' taste.<>
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Away went Mr. Pickwick--handsacross--down the middle to the very end of the room, and half-way up thechimney, back again to the door--poussette everywhere--loud stamp on theground--ready for the next couple--off again--all the figure over oncemore--another stamp to beat out the time--next couple, and the next, andthe next again--never was such going; at last, after they had reachedthe bottom of the dance, and full fourteen couple after the old ladyhad retired in an exhausted state, and the clergyman's wife had beensubstituted in her stead, did that gentleman, when there was no demandwhatever on his exertions, keep perpetually dancing in his place, tokeep time to the music, smiling on his partner all the while with ablandness of demeanour which baffles all description.<>
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He WAScarried away by goblins, Pickwick; and there's an end of the matter.<>
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No, no,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'not an end of it, I assure you; for I musthear how, and why, and all about it.<>
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But this opinion, which was by no means a popularone at any time, gradually died off; and be the matter how it may, asGabriel Grub was afflicted with rheumatism to the end of his days, thisstory has at least one moral, if it teach no better one--and that is,that if a man turn sulky and drink by himself at Christmas time, he maymake up his mind to be not a bit the better for it: let the spiritsbe never so good, or let them be even as many degrees beyond proof, asthose which Gabriel Grub saw in the goblin's cavern.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Sam!' said Mr. Pickwick, looking round, when they got to the end ofCheapside.<>
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The prim man arrived at this point just as the glasses came back, whenMr. Bob Sawyer, who had been absorbed in attention during the wholetime, said he should very much like to hear the end of it, for, so faras it went, it was, without exception, the very best story he had everheard.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It was at the end of the chorus to the first verse, that Mr. Pickwickheld up his hand in a listening attitude, and said, as soon as silencewas restored--'Hush! I beg your pardon.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) '"So I take the privilidge of the day, Mary, my dear--as the gen'l'm'nin difficulties did, ven he valked out of a Sunday--to tell you that thefirst and only time I see you, your likeness was took on my hart in muchquicker time and brighter colours than ever a likeness was took by theprofeel macheen (wich p'raps you may have heerd on Mary my dear) althoit DOES finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete,with a hook at the end to hang it up by, and all in two minutes and aquarter.<>
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I COULD end with awerse; what do you think?I don't like it, Sam,' rejoined Mr. Weller.<>
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Mr. Pickwick yawned several times when he had arrived at the end of thislittle manuscript, carefully refolded, and replaced it in the inkstanddrawer, and then, with a countenance expressive of the utmost weariness,lighted his chamber candle, and went upstairs to bed.<>
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Mr. Tuckletook the chair, and was supported at the other end of the board by thegentleman in orange plush.<>
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He stopped when he had got to the end of the passage, and walkingquietly back, thrust his head in at the parlour door.<>
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Getout, you mouldy old villain, get out!' With this adjuration, which wasaddressed to the large book, the medical gentleman kicked the volumewith remarkable agility to the farther end of the shop, and, pullingoff his green spectacles, grinned the identical grin of Robert Sawyer,Esquire, formerly of Guy's Hospital in the Borough, with a privateresidence in Lant Street.<>
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So snug, that at the end of a few yearsyou might put all the profits in a wine-glass, and cover 'em over witha gooseberry leaf.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) There was no singing, because Mr. Bob Sawyer said it wouldn't lookprofessional; but to make amends for this deprivation there was so muchtalking and laughing that it might have been heard, and very likely was,at the end of the street.<>
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The best thing to bedone, sir, will be for Mr. Weller to give you a hoist up into the tree,and perhaps Mr. Pickwick will have the goodness to see that nobody comesup the lane, while I watch at the other end of the garden.<>
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But this Sam flatly and positively refused to do; and, after he hadbeen severely reprimanded by his master, the officer, being in a hurry,condescended to pick it up himself, venting a great variety of threatsagainst Sam meanwhile, which that gentleman received with perfectcomposure, merely observing that if Mr. Namby would have the goodnessto put his hat on again, he would knock it into the latter end ofnext week.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Pickwick, feeling not a little disgusted with this dialogue, as wellas with the air and manner of the two beings by whom it had been carriedon, was about to inquire whether he could not be accommodated with aprivate sitting-room, when two or three strangers of genteel appearanceentered, at sight of whom the boy threw his cigar into the fire, andwhispering to Mr. Price that they had come to 'make it all right' forhim, joined them at a table in the farther end of the room.<>
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Standing on a box behind a wooden bar at another end ofthe room was a clerk in spectacles who was 'taking the affidavits';large batches of which were, from time to time, carried into the privateroom by another clerk for the judge's signature.<>
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Hows'ever, if he's dead, and ain't left the bisness tonobody, there's an end on it.<>
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We would beg to callparticular attention to the monosyllable at the end of the second andfourth lines, which not only enables the singer to take breath at thosepoints, but greatly assists the metre.<>
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Now the murder's out, and, damme, there'san end on it!'With these words, which he repeated with great emphasis and violence,Sam Weller dashed his hat upon the ground, in a most unusual state ofexcitement; and then, folding his arms, looked firmly and fixedly in hismaster's face.<>
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The above short dialogue took place as Mr. Weller lay extended on hismattress at one end of the room, and the cobbler on his, at the other;the apartment being illumined by the light of a rush-candle, and thecobbler's pipe, which was glowing below the table, like a red-hot coal.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Twelve year,' replied the cobbler, biting the end of his pipe as hespoke.<>
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Now I ask you, my dear sir, not only as your legal adviser,but as your very true friend, will you let slip the occasion ofattaining all these objects, and doing all this good, for the paltryconsideration of a few pounds finding their way into the pockets of acouple of rascals, to whom it makes no manner of difference, except thatthe more they gain, the more they'll seek, and so the sooner be ledinto some piece of knavery that must end in a crash? I have put theseconsiderations to you, my dear Sir, very feebly and imperfectly, butI ask you to think of them.<>
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The individual to whom this observation referred, was sitting at theupper end of the room when Mr. Pickwick entered, and was smoking alarge Dutch pipe, with his eye intently fixed on the round face of thelandlord; a jolly-looking old personage, to whom he had recently beenrelating some tale of wonder, as was testified by sundry disjointedexclamations of, 'Well, I wouldn't have believed it! The strangest thingI ever heard! Couldn't have supposed it possible!' and other expressionsof astonishment which burst spontaneously from his lips, as he returnedthe fixed gaze of the one-eyed man.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'The bailie's house was in the Canongate, and my uncle was going to theother end of Leith Walk, rather better than a mile's journey.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'When my uncle reached the end of Leith Walk, he had to cross a prettylarge piece of waste ground which separated him from a short streetwhich he had to turn down to go direct to his lodging.<>
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This roused my uncle more and more, and he resolved, come whatmight, to see the end of it.<>
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The lady was at the farther end of the room, and once she ventured towave her hand, as if beseeching my uncle's assistance.<>
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The impression was perfectly accurate; for Mr. Bob Sawyer, havingattached the case-bottle to the end of the walking-stick, was batteringthe window with it, in token of his wish, that his friends inside wouldpartake of its contents, in all good-fellowship and harmony.<>
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Without goin' so far as to as-sert, as somewery sensible people do, that postboys and donkeys is both immortal,wot I say is this: that wenever they feels theirselves gettin' stiff andpast their work, they just rides off together, wun postboy to a pair inthe usual way; wot becomes on 'em nobody knows, but it's wery probableas they starts avay to take their pleasure in some other vorld, forthere ain't a man alive as ever see either a donkey or a postboya-takin' his pleasure in this!'Expatiating upon this learned and remarkable theory, and citing manycurious statistical and other facts in its support, Sam Weller beguiledthe time until they reached Dunchurch, where a dry postboy and freshhorses were procured; the next stage was Daventry, and the nextTowcester; and at the end of each stage it rained harder than it haddone at the beginning.<>
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'Idare say I should turn very blue, long before I got to the end of them,'responded Bob.<>
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The indignant Independent did not wait to hear the end of this personaldenunciation; for, catching up his carpet-bag, which was well stuffedwith movables, he swung it in the air as Pott turned away, and, lettingit fall with a circular sweep on his head, just at that particular angleof the bag where a good thick hairbrush happened to be packed, caused asharp crash to be heard throughout the kitchen, and brought him at onceto the ground.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Now, whether the shake had jumbled the fat boy's faculties together,instead of arranging them in proper order, or had roused such a quantityof new ideas within him as to render him oblivious of ordinary formsand ceremonies, or (which is also possible) had proved unsuccessfulin preventing his falling asleep as he ascended the stairs, it is anundoubted fact that he walked into the sitting-room without previouslyknocking at the door; and so beheld a gentleman with his arms claspinghis young mistress's waist, sitting very lovingly by her side on a sofa,while Arabella and her pretty handmaid feigned to be absorbed in lookingout of a window at the other end of the room.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The office of Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, of the Stock Exchange, was in afirst floor up a court behind the Bank of England; the house of WilkinsFlasher, Esquire, was at Brixton, Surrey; the horse and stanhope ofWilkins Flasher, Esquire, were at an adjacent livery stable; the groomof Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, was on his way to the West End to deliversome game; the clerk of Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, had gone to hisdinner; and so Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, himself, cried, 'Come in,' whenMr. Pell and his companions knocked at the counting-house door.<>
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The oldhousekeeper dying at the end of that time, Mr. Pickwick promoted Maryto the situation, on condition of her marrying Mr. Weller at once, whichshe did without a murmur.<>
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"This garden wall we're walking underis at the end of the grounds of Sir Humphrey Gwynne, better known as Mr.Justice Gwynne, the old judge who made such a row about spying duringthe war.<>
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He realized that it was,in fact, a priest; but there was something about it that reminded him ofsome quaint old black woodcut at the end of a Dance of Death.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Entering by the side-door, they found themselves at the inner end ofthe entrance hall, which ran along the side of the house and ended withthe front door, surmounted by a dreary fanlight of the old-fashionedpattern.<>
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They lay littered on the carpet,along with pale and gleaming fragments of a broken mirror, of which thealmost empty frame hung behind them on the wall at the end of thevestibule.<>
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At the other end of it could be seen thetelephone which the servant had used to summon the priest; and a half-open door, showing, even through the crack, the serried ranks of greatleather-bound books, marked the entrance to the judge's study.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) There was no reply; and they passed out of the front door into the frontgarden, a narrower and more formal plot of flowers, having at one end acuriously clipped hedge with a hole in it, like a green cave, under theshadow of which some broken steps peeped out.<>
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The red end of his cigar brightened and darkenedrhythmically, but his brown face was in shadow; when he spoke it waswith quite a new voice.<>
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If you told him the path led nowhere, he would tell you it had ledhim to the country at the end of the world.<>
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"Imagine thelooking-glass at the end of the passage, before it was broken, and thetall palm arching over it.<>
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In the half-light, reflecting thesemonochrome walls, it would, look like the end of the passage.<>
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Yet, there wassomething specially strange about the glass that hung at the end of thatgrey corridor under that green palm.<>
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Fromthe other end of the room it looked like a rather unusually large bowlcontaining rather unusually large living fish; a closer inspectionshowed it to be a huge bubble of beautifully blown Venetian glass, verythin and delicately clouded with faintly iridescent colour, in thetinted twilight of which hung grotesque golden fishes with great rubiesfor eyes.<>
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He had examined everything, measured,everything, taken down everybody's deposition, taken everybody's finger-prints, put everybody's back up, and found himself at the end leftfacing a fact which he could not believe.<>
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By creating amysterious magician from the end of the earth, he set everybody'sthoughts wandering far afield to Arabia and India, so that you yourselfcan hardly believe that the whole thing was so near home.<>
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You know that Mandevillealways works in that little room at the end of the passage, just underthe stage.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "We can go back and see, if you like," said Jarvis; and they descendedagain to the basement and the long passage, at one end of which wasMandeville's study and at the other the closed door of Signora Maroni.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Near the other end of the passage they caught a glimpse of some of theother actors in the scene mounting the stairs to the stage just above.<>
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"Looks as if a little flirtation with her might end fatally, doesn'tit?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "I don't think he's flirting with her," said Father Brown.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Even as he spoke the group in question turned at the end of the galleryand broke up, and Captain Musgrave came back to them in hasty strides.<>
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"When he wants to bealone, he always goes to the cloisters, just at the end of the leftwing, beyond my husband's study and private museum, you know.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Towards the end of the lecture on the Demiurge of the Gnostics (notforgetting its connexion with the parallel concept of Manichaeus), eventhe tactful Mr. Hardcastle thought it time to create a diversion.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "If you were to be utterly, unfathomably, silent, do you think you mighthear a cry from the other end of the world? The cry of a worshipperalone in those mountains, where the original image sits, itself like amountain.<>
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The same strange trick of lightning bywhich it seems to record millions of minute things in an instant oftime, picked out everything, from the elegant litter of the picnicspread under the spreading tree to the pale lengths of winding road, atthe end of which a white car was waiting.<>
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