Felix Holt, the RadicalHarper, 1871 - 529 pages |
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... Jermyn had sat on that box - seat many and many a time . He had made the wills of most people thereabout . The coachman would not say that Lawyer Jermyn was not the man he would choose to make his own will some day . It was not so well ...
... Jermyn had sat on that box - seat many and many a time . He had made the wills of most people thereabout . The coachman would not say that Lawyer Jermyn was not the man he would choose to make his own will some day . It was not so well ...
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... Jermyn . " A fat - handed , glib - tongued fellow , with a scented cam- bric handkerchief ; one of your educated low - bred fellows ; a foundling who got his Latin for nothing at Christ's Hos- pital ; one of your middle - class upstarts ...
... Jermyn . " A fat - handed , glib - tongued fellow , with a scented cam- bric handkerchief ; one of your educated low - bred fellows ; a foundling who got his Latin for nothing at Christ's Hos- pital ; one of your middle - class upstarts ...
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George Eliot. quarreling with Jermyn till the election was over . Jer . myn must be his agent ; Harold must wink hard till he found himself safely returned ; and even then it might be well to let Jermyn drop gently and raise no scandal ...
George Eliot. quarreling with Jermyn till the election was over . Jer . myn must be his agent ; Harold must wink hard till he found himself safely returned ; and even then it might be well to let Jermyn drop gently and raise no scandal ...
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... Jermyn must be used for the election , and after that , if he must be got rid of , it would be well to shake him loose quietly : his uncle was probably right on both those points . But Harold's expectation that he should want to get rid ...
... Jermyn must be used for the election , and after that , if he must be got rid of , it would be well to shake him loose quietly : his uncle was probably right on both those points . But Harold's expectation that he should want to get rid ...
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... Jermyn , with a soft and deferential smile , " all the more , " he added , turn- ing toward Harold , " now I have the pleasure of actually seeing your son . I am glad to perceive that an Eastern climate has not been unfavorable to him ...
... Jermyn , with a soft and deferential smile , " all the more , " he added , turn- ing toward Harold , " now I have the pleasure of actually seeing your son . I am glad to perceive that an Eastern climate has not been unfavorable to him ...
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