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"It all comes of believing Papa's silly stories," she said; "faith I'll choose for meself another time" and very likely the large image of Lieutenant Sir Derby Oaks entered into her mind at that instant. After praising Major Pendennis, whom Miss Costigan declared to be a proper gentleman entirely, smelling of lavender, and as neat as a pin, and who was pronounced by Mr.

Pen's eyes drank in with an eagerness which belongs to first impressions; and Major Pendennis surveyed with that calmness which belongs to a gentleman who does not care for the picturesque, and whose eyes have been somewhat dimmed by the constant glare of the pavement of Pall Mall.

Pendennis; and I daresay because she thought you wouldn't give her message to him, and beg him to go and see her; and she knew I would take her errand. Did he tell you that, sir?" Huxter blushed scarlet, and covered his confusion with an imprecation. Pen laughed; the scene suited his bitter humor more and more. "I have no doubt Mr.

There is Mr. Thackeray. With what sympathy, with what enjoyment, he shows us the healthy, wealthy, hopeful youths, like Clive Newcome, or young Pendennis, when it was all sunshine around the young prince! And yet how sad a picture of life he gives us in The Newcomes.

Once on going up to London to the levee with an address from his Majesty's Loyal University of Oxbridge, Buck had seen Major Pendennis at St. James's in conversation with two knights of the garter, in the carriage of one of whom the dazzled tutor saw the Major whisked away after the levee.

"Not that I know any thing about it," said Blanche, casting her eyes down, "except what I have read in novels." "Of course not," Major Pendennis cried; "how should you, my dear young lady? and novels ain't true, as you remark admirably, and there is no romance left in the world. Begad, I wish I was a young fellow, like my nephew."

She sent me down here with a grinder. She wants me to cultivate my neglected genus He, be! I say, Pen, this isn't quite like seven o'clock school, is it, old boy?" and the young fellow burst out into a boyish laugh of enjoyment. Then he added "Go in and talk to the General whilst I dress. And I say, Pendennis, ask him to sing you 'The Little Pig under the Bed; it's capital."

Oh, how I dislike him! I am sure he is unkind to his wife. I am sure he has a bad temper; and if there is any excuse for Pendennis. For what? Mrs. P. For nothing. But you heard yourself that he had a bad temper, and spoke sneeringly to his wife. What could make her marry him? Pendennis. Money, and the desire of papa and mamma.

She can't help being a coquette, Mr. Pendennis, she can't help it. Dammy, sir! I'll be bound to say, that two or three of the Bartholomew chaps, that I've brought into my place, are sitting with her now: even Jack Linton, that I took down as my best man, is as bad as the rest, and she will go on singing and making eyes at him.

As for good women these, my worthy reader, are different from us the nature of these is to love, and to do kind offices, and devise untiring charities: so I would have you to know, that, though Mr. Pendennis was parcus suorum cultor et infrequens, Mrs.