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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...my young Lord say, when Shakspeare was a butcher, he used to make speeches at the calves, as if they was for a sacrifice, or ever he could lift a knif... ...ad rendered her. 8 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 Charlotte Arnold had been fairly educated at a village school, and tenderly brought up at home till left an ... ...er her next strongest char- acteristic, family pride. She married a highly-educated and wealthy gentleman, of good family, but of mercantile connexion... ...ore frocks and learnt to spell. If any human being could sweeten the Latin Grammar, it was Mrs. Frost, with the motherliness of a dame, and the refine... ...not? She wished she had never teased him by going out so much, and letting people talk nonsense; he had been very kind, and she was not half good enou... ...n wonder and reproof, ‘Is that on purpose?’ ‘Adventures are thrust on some people,’ was the noncha- lant reply, with shoulders depressed, and a twinkl... ... warmth and propriety that had a grace of their own, even in her racy, bad grammar; and there was no withstanding the merry smile that twitched up one... ... he was some kin to her first cousin’s brother- in-law’s shopman’s wife in Tottenham-court-road, whose name she knew was Ford, and who had been picked...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... was so rich in the gifts which make tea- parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, pro... ...s. It suddenly came into Katharine’s mind that if some one opened the door at this moment he would think that they were enjoying themselves; he would ... ...ss which inevitably attends the entrance of a stranger into a room full of people much at their ease, and all launched upon sentences. At the same tim... ...hat Ralph had said something very stupid. So, after three lessons in Latin grammar, one might correct a fellow student, whose knowledge did not embrac... ..., pouring out a second cup of tea, “especially among women who aren’t well educated. They don’t see that small things matter, and that’s where the lea... ...solitude. If she had had her way, she would have walked very fast down the Tottenham Court Road, and then sprung into a cab and raced swiftly home. Th... ...or them?” “Oh dear no—that wouldn’t do at all.” So they walked on down the Tottenham Court Road, parting and coming together again, and Ralph felt muc... ...r hand. “I should say you’d better begin to read at once if you mean to be educated by tea-time.” “Damn Lord Macaulay!” cried Cassandra, slapping the ...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ID COPPERFIELD VOLUME TWO By Charles Dickens CHAPTER 29 I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN I MENTIONED TO Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted... ...ied about? she replied, with provoking coldness. Oh! It was only whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution is that the phr... ... It s as good a phrase as another, said Steerforth. Thank you: whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater... ...ddles, with a great enjoy- ment of his mystery, which is up at the top of Tottenham Court Road, and, at last, today I find them put out for sale. I h... ... world. I never shall forget him peeping round the corner of the street in Tottenham Court Road, while Peggotty was bargaining for the precious articl... ... the finishing touch to that renunciation of mankind in which she had been educated, by marrying a pilot; but she decided against that venture. Not so... ...h her spine, you know. Im- mensely better! And the two youngest that Sophy educated are with us. And Louisa s here. Indeed! cried I. Yes, said Tr... ...ghly talented, and so widely popular. Doctor Mell (of Colonial Salem-House Grammar School, Port Middlebay) presided, and on his right sat the distingu...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... His great ability as a phonetician (he was, I think, the best of them all at his job) would have entitled him to high official recognition, and perha... ...ll portraiture. But if the play makes the public aware that there are such people as phoneticians, and that they are among the most important people i... ...t art should never be anything else. Finally, and for the encouragement of people troubled with accents that cut them off from all high employment, I ... ...ulty? PICKERING. Eh? What difficulty? 27 Shaw HIGGINS. To get her to talk grammar. The mere pronun- ciation is easy enough. LIZA. I don’t want to tal... ...ammar. The mere pronun- ciation is easy enough. LIZA. I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. MRS. PEARCE. Will you please keep to t... ... it sounded so genteel. I should just like to take a taxi to the corner of Tottenham Court Road and get out there and tell it to wait for me, just to ... ... no exchange value, apparently. It had prevented her from getting 91 Shaw educated, because the only education she could have afforded was education ... ...nd her elation was un- bounded when she found that Freddy, like all youths educated at cheap, pretentious, and thoroughly inef- ficient schools, knew ...

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...said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don?t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...d do a great kindness.” “Well, Joe?” “If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath’s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had ... ... seemed to charm her above all. “I always did want to know what was inside people’s windows,” she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to g... ...en, you know. It will be always warm about my heart to know there are such people.” Mrs. Brownlow happened to overhear this little colloquy while her ... ...o home to dinner. It’s father—” “Where is father?” “Those horrid people in Tottenham Court Road sent for him just as he had come home,” said Janet. “H... ...rm. Indeed, she was anxious enough about him, when he went down to the old grammar-school, to revolve the possibility of acceding to his earnest wish,... ...s, as I told her. They don’t get help in sums or exercises; they only have grammar to learn and construing to prepare, and all my con- cern is that it... ...ner almost like that of Babie herself, and yet the cleverness of a highly- educated woman. Mary Ogilvie did not wonder at what Mr. and Mrs. Acton had ... ...was poor little Caroline so ignorant as ac- tually to glory in having been educated for a governess! The Colonel, wanting to finish his Times in peace...