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Here, leading the waythrough every walk and cross walk, and scarcely allowing them aninterval to utter the praises he asked for, every view was pointed outwith a minuteness which left beauty entirely behind.<>
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Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and shelistened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added, "I havenever known a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him eversince he was four years old.<>
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Gardiner'slong letter; but now, having that to communicate which she knew wouldbe most welcome, she was almost ashamed to find that her uncle andaunt had already lost three days of happiness, and immediately wrote asfollows:"I would have thanked you before, my dear aunt, as I ought to have done,for your long, kind, satisfactory, detail of particulars; but to say thetruth, I was too cross to write.<>
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Therewas one old lady who always had about half a dozen cards to pay for, atwhich everybody laughed, regularly every round; and when the old ladylooked cross at having to pay, they laughed louder than ever; on whichthe old lady's face gradually brightened up, till at last she laughedlouder than any of them, Then, when the spinster aunt got 'matrimony,'the young ladies laughed afresh, and the Spinster aunt seemed disposedto be pettish; till, feeling Mr. Tupman squeezing her hand under thetable, she brightened up too, and looked rather knowing, as if matrimonyin reality were not quite so far off as some people thought for;whereupon everybody laughed again, and especially old Mr. Wardle, whoenjoyed a joke as much as the youngest.<>
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If any bagman of that day couldhave caught sight of the little neck-or-nothing sort of gig, with aclay-coloured body and red wheels, and the vixenish, ill tempered,fast-going bay mare, that looked like a cross between a butcher's horseand a twopenny post-office pony, he would have known at once, that thistraveller could have been no other than Tom Smart, of the great house ofBilson and Slum, Cateaton Street, City.<>
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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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