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The note was immediately dispatched, andits contents as quickly complied with.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth was again deep in thought, and after a time exclaimed, "Totreat in such a manner the godson, the friend, the favourite of hisfather!" She could have added, "A young man, too, like you, whose verycountenance may vouch for your being amiable"--but she contented herselfwith, "and one, too, who had probably been his companion from childhood,connected together, as I think you said, in the closest manner!""We were born in the same parish, within the same park; the greatestpart of our youth was passed together; inmates of the same house,sharing the same amusements, objects of the same parental care.<>
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Gardiner about this time reminded Elizabeth of her promiseconcerning that gentleman, and required information; and Elizabethhad such to send as might rather give contentment to her aunt than toherself.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) The evening was spent chiefly in talking over Hertfordshire news,and telling again what had already been written; and when it closed,Elizabeth, in the solitude of her chamber, had to meditate uponCharlotte's degree of contentment, to understand her address in guiding,and composure in bearing with, her husband, and to acknowledge that itwas all done very well.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "FITZWILLIAM DARCY"Chapter 36If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did not expect it tocontain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all ofits contents.<>
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Her father, contented with laughing atthem, would never exert himself to restrain the wild giddiness of hisyoungest daughters; and her mother, with manners so far from rightherself, was entirely insensible of the evil.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) She then spoke of the letter, repeating the whole of its contents as faras they concerned George Wickham.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinioncontinued the same, and she left him disappointed and sorry.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) However little Mr. Darcy might have liked such an address, he contentedhimself with coolly replying that he perceived no other alteration thanher being rather tanned, no miraculous consequence of travelling in thesummer.<>
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While the contents of the firstletter remained in her mind, she was all surprise--all astonishment thatWickham should marry a girl whom it was impossible he could marryfor money; and how Lydia could ever have attached him had appearedincomprehensible.<>
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Thesewere the contents:"MY DEAR HARRIET,"You will laugh when you know where I am gone, and I cannot helplaughing myself at your surprise to-morrow morning, as soon as I ammissed.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits,in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore thegreatest share.<>
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But when they see,as I trust they will, that their brother is happy with me, they willlearn to be contented, and we shall be on good terms again; though wecan never be what we once were to each other.<>
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Yourretrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentmentarising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, ofinnocence.<>
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Lady Catherine had been renderedso exceedingly angry by the contents of her nephew's letter, thatCharlotte, really rejoicing in the match, was anxious to get away tillthe storm was blown over.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow viewsof those philosophers who, content with examining the things that liebefore them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As wellmight I be content to gaze on Goswell Street for ever, without oneeffort to penetrate to the hidden countries which on every side surroundit.<>
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Mr. Snodgrass hastily professed himself very much obliged with thehandsome offer of the gentleman who had spoken last, which he was onlyinduced to decline by his entire contentment with the whole proceedings.<>
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Having concluded this speech, and uttered the lastthree words in a loud key, he stalked majestically after his friend,closely followed by Doctor Slammer, who said nothing, but contentedhimself by withering the company with a look.<>
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Havingpreviously tested the virtues of a bumper, which had been mixed by thedismal man, the stranger applied the glass to Mr. Pickwick's mouth; andthe remainder of its contents rapidly disappeared.<>
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Fastened up behind the barouche was a hamperof spacious dimensions--one of those hampers which always awakens in acontemplative mind associations connected with cold fowls, tongues, andbottles of wine--and on the box sat a fat and red-faced boy, in a stateof somnolency, whom no speculative observer could have regarded for aninstant without setting down as the official dispenser of the contentsof the before-mentioned hamper, when the proper time for theirconsumption should arrive.<>
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Then there was such aramming down of the contents of enormous guns on the battery, withinstruments like magnified mops; such a preparation before they were letoff, and such an awful noise when they did go, that the air resoundedwith the screams of ladies.<>
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Edmunds"; and sometimes, when she stopped to exchange a fewwords with a neighbour at the conclusion of the service in the littlerow of elm-trees which leads to the church porch, or lingered behindto gaze with a mother's pride and fondness upon her healthy boy, as hesported before her with some little companions, her careworn face wouldlighten up with an expression of heartfelt gratitude; and she wouldlook, if not cheerful and happy, at least tranquil and contented.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'But the spirit of resignation and endurance that had so long upheldher, was unable to contend against bodily weakness and infirmity.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The wickets were pitched, and so were a couple of marquees for therest and refreshment of the contending parties.<>
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Here the stranger buried his countenance in abrown jug, but whether to hide his emotion or imbibe its contents, wecannot distinctly affirm.<>
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We must be content to suffer some pecuniary loss.<>
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It was in his friend's hand-writing,and these were its contents:--'MY DEAR PICKWICK,--YOU, my dear friend, are placed far beyond the reachof many mortal frailties and weaknesses which ordinary people cannotovercome.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Every one has experienced that disagreeable state of mind, in which asensation of bodily weariness in vain contends against an inability tosleep.<>
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We will not, therefore, hazard a guess upon the subject, butwill at once proceed with this history, content with the materials whichits characters have provided for us.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As these taunts were accompanied with invidious comparisons between Mr.Pickwick and an aged ram, and several witticisms of the like nature; andas they moreover rather tended to convey reflections upon the honourof an innocent lady, Mr. Pickwick's indignation was excessive; but assilence was proclaimed at the moment, he contented himself by scorchingthe mob with a look of pity for their misguided minds, at which theylaughed more boisterously than ever.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Tom surveyed the rooms he passed through, on his way downstairs, withthe scrutinising eye of a landlord; thinking it not impossible, thatbefore long, they and their contents would be his property.<>
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Count Smorltork was busilyengaged in taking notes of the contents of the dishes; Mr. Tupman wasdoing the honours of the lobster salad to several lionesses, with adegree of grace which no brigand ever exhibited before; Mr. Snodgrasshaving cut out the young gentleman who cut up the books for theEatanswill GAZETTE, was engaged in an impassioned argument with theyoung lady who did the poetry; and Mr. Pickwick was making himselfuniversally agreeable.<>
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No wonder then, that Nathaniel Pipkin was unable to take hiseyes from the countenance of Miss Lobbs; no wonder that Miss Lobbs,finding herself stared at by a young man, withdrew her head from thewindow out of which she had been peeping, and shut the casement andpulled down the blind; no wonder that Nathaniel Pipkin, immediatelythereafter, fell upon the young urchin who had previously offended, andcuffed and knocked him about to his heart's content.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Whatever thoughts the threat of a separation might have awakened in Mr.Pott's mind, he forbore to give utterance to them, and contented himselfby saying, with great humility:--'My dear, will you hear me?'A fresh train of sobs was the only reply, as Mrs.<>
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WHEREIN Mr. PETER MAGNUS GROWS JEALOUS, AND THEMIDDLE-AGED LADY APPREHENSIVE, WHICH BRINGS THE PICKWICKIANS WITHIN THEGRASP OF THE LAWWhen Mr. Pickwick descended to the room in which he and Mr. Peter Magnushad spent the preceding evening, he found that gentleman with the majorpart of the contents of the two bags, the leathern hat-box, and thebrown-paper parcel, displaying to all possible advantage on his person,while he himself was pacing up and down the room in a state of theutmost excitement and agitation.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I say,' said Mr. Pickwick, growing gradually angry, 'that I might havetaken a greater revenge, but I content myself with exposing you, which Iconsider a duty I owe to society.<>
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The father and mother were old and helpless now, and the numberof those about them was diminished more than half; but content andcheerfulness sat on every face, and beamed in every eye, as they crowdedround the fireside, and told and listened to old stories of earlier andbygone days.<>
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The few who yet survived them, kneeled by their tomb, andwatered the green turf which covered it with their tears; then rose,and turned away, sadly and mournfully, but not with bitter cries, ordespairing lamentations, for they knew that they should one day meetagain; and once more they mixed with the busy world, and their contentand cheerfulness were restored.<>
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He saw those who had beendelicately nurtured, and tenderly brought up, cheerful under privations,and superior to suffering, that would have crushed many of a roughergrain, because they bore within their own bosoms the materials ofhappiness, contentment, and peace.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Unfortunately, these stories were somewhat disturbed by theunlooked-for reappearance of Gabriel Grub himself, some ten yearsafterwards, a ragged, contented, rheumatic old man.<>
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Heraised Sam's tumbler to his lips and drank off its contents.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Henry Beller was for many years toast-master at various corporationdinners, during which time he drank a great deal of foreign wine; maysometimes have carried a bottle or two home with him; is not quitecertain of that, but is sure if he did, that he drank the contents.<>
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Agood, contented, well-breakfasted juryman is a capital thing to get holdof.<>
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Others, who had neither briefs nor books, thrust theirhands into their pockets, and looked as wise as they convenientlycould; others, again, moved here and there with great restlessness andearnestness of manner, content to awaken thereby the admiration andastonishment of the uninitiated strangers.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Has his behaviour, when females have been in the case, always been thatof a man, who, having attained a pretty advanced period of life, contentwith his own occupations and amusements, treats them only as a fathermight his daughters?Not the least doubt of it,' replied Mr. Winkle, in the fulness of hisheart.<>
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I shall employ myself as usual, until the oppositeparty have the power of issuing a legal process of execution against me;and if they are vile enough to avail themselves of it, and to arrest myperson, I shall yield myself up with perfect cheerfulness and content ofheart.<>
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As Sam spoke,he pointed to that part of the coach door on which the proprietor's nameusually appears; and there, sure enough, in gilt letters of a goodlysize, was the magic name of PICKWICK!'Dear me,' exclaimed Mr. Pickwick, quite staggered by the coincidence;'what a very extraordinary thing!Yes, but that ain't all,' said Sam, again directing his master'sattention to the coach door; 'not content vith writin' up "Pick-wick,"they puts "Moses" afore it, vich I call addin' insult to injury, as theparrot said ven they not only took him from his native land, but madehim talk the English langwidge arterwards.<>
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When theyhad enjoyed the joke to their heart's content, the discourse changed totopics in which Mr. Winkle was more immediately interested.<>
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Mr. Sawyer, being a bachelor, had only onetumbler in the house, which was assigned to Mr. Winkle as a complimentto the visitor, Mr. Ben Allen being accommodated with a funnel with acork in the narrow end, and Bob Sawyer contented himself with one ofthose wide-lipped crystal vessels inscribed with a variety of cabalisticcharacters, in which chemists are wont to measure out their liquid drugsin compounding prescriptions.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) All this time, the man in the spectacles was hard at work, swearing theclerks; the oath being invariably administered, without any effort atpunctuation, and usually in the following terms:--'Take the book in your right hand this is your name and hand-writing youswear that the contents of this your affidavit are true so help you Goda shilling you must get change I haven't got it.<>
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Hetasted the contents of the glass which Sam had placed in his hand,put his umbrella on the floor, and tasted it again, passing his handplacidly across his stomach twice or thrice; he then drank the whole ata breath, and smacking his lips, held out the tumbler for more.<>
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Bardell's door;which the heavy gentleman, in direct opposition to, and defiance of, thevixenish ladies, contended was a green door and not a yellow one.<>
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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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If they persist in accompanying me, I must make the interview asbrief as possible, and be content that, for their own sakes, they willnot expose themselves.<>
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You will see, by its contents, thaton your favourable and fatherly consideration of it, depend his futurehappiness and welfare.<>
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Having satisfied himself on this point, Sam read the letter all over,once more, and, appearing to form a clear notion of its contents for thefirst time, ejaculated thoughtfully, as he folded it up--'And so the poor creetur's dead! I'm sorry for it.<>
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The contents of thepocket-book had been so well invested for him, however, by Mr. Pickwick,that he had a handsome independence to retire on, upon which he stilllives at an excellent public-house near Shooter's Hill, where he isquite reverenced as an oracle, boasting very much of his intimacy withMr. Pickwick, and retaining a most unconquerable aversion to widows.<>
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