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Fogg gets kinder and kinder to you, doesn't she? You're not homesick any more, are you?" "No-o; not really; only when I remember there's only little Susan to manage the twins; though they're getting on real well without me. But I kind of think, Rebecca, that I'm going to be given away to the Foggs for good." "Do you mean adopted?" "Yes; I think father's going to sign papers.
Nobody would have taken him to be a partner in any of those great houses of which we have read in history, the Quirk, Gammon and Snaps of the profession, or the Dodson and Foggs, who are immortal. "That is my name, sir," said Mr Crawley, taking off his hat and bowing low, "and I am here by appointment to meet Mr Toogood, the solicitor, whose name I see affixed upon the door-post."
'Vell, said Sam, rising and setting down his glass, 'all I can say is, that I vish you MAY get it. 'Thank'ee, Mr. Weller, said Mrs. Bardell fervently. 'And of them Dodson and Foggs, as does these sort o' things on spec, continued Mr.
Persuade me I can hate Sleepe after tedious watching, or reiect The wholesome ayre when I've bin long choakd up With sicklie foggs: sooner shall Lady. Desist from protestations, or employ them Mong those who have no more discretion Then to beleive them. Bon. How, Lady? Lady. Bon. These are arts Orewhelme my dull capacity with horror: Inconstant! Lady.
Any excuse to leave me. Ri. You may take Your ease a bed still, Madam. Ile not loose One morning that invites so pleasantly, To heare my Doggs, for a new Maidenhead, I. Twas for these sports and my excess of charge I left the towne: besides the Citty foggs And steame of Brick hills almost stifled me; This Aire is pure and all my owne. Tho.
But do not let us be unjust. If law to-day is more nearly the instrument of justice than it has ever been, it is the great lawyers to whom we chiefly owe the fact. There are Dodsons and Foggs in the law, but there are also Pyms and Pratts who have upheld the liberties of this country in the teeth of tyrant kings and servile Parliaments.
Clara Belle had been adopted by the Foggs; thus there were only three mouths to fill, the capacious ones of Elijah and Elisha, the twin boys, and of lisping, nine-year-old Susan, the capable houseworker and mother's assistant, for the baby had died during the summer; died of discouragement at having been born into a family unprovided with food or money or love or care, or even with desire for, or appreciation of, babies.
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