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Updated: April 30, 2025
And the widow went away with this prayer, to pass her night as she might, and look for the dreadful morrow. The last words about himself excited Major Pendennis so much, that his compassion for Mrs. Brixham's misfortunes was quite forgotten in the consideration of his own case. "Me on my knees?" thought he, as he got into bed: "confound his impudence. Who ever saw me on my knees?
"What do you want with me, sir?" "I'll tell you. Your bills, I suppose, you keep about you in that dem'd great leather pocket-book, don't you? You'll burn Mrs. Brixham's bill?" "Sir, I ain't a-goin' to part with my property," growled the man. "You lent her sixty pounds five years ago.
He looked at poor Mrs. Brixham's scared face; and he thought for a moment to himself that the man brought to bay and in prison might make disclosures which had best be kept secret, and that it was best not to deal too fiercely with a desperate man. "Stop," he said, "policeman. I'll speak with this man by himself." "Do you give Mr. Morgan in charge?" said the policeman.
"What do you want with me, sir?" "I'll tell you. Your bills, I suppose, you keep about you in that dem'd great leather pocket-book, don't you? You'll burn Mrs. Brixham's bill?" "Sir, I ain't a-goin' to part with my property," growled the man. "You lent her sixty pounds five years ago.
He looked at poor Mrs. Brixham's scared face; and he thought for a moment to himself that the man brought to bay and in prison might make disclosures which had best be kept secret, and that it was best not to deal too fiercely with a desperate man. "Stop," he said, "policeman. I'll speak with this man by himself." "Do you give Mr. Morgan in charge?" said the policeman.
And the widow went away with this prayer, to pass her night as she might, and look for the dreadful morrow. The last words about himself excited Major Pendennis so much, that his compassion for Mrs. Brixham's misfortunes was quite forgotten in the consideration of his own case. "Me on my knees?" thought he, as he got into bed: "confound his impudence! Who ever saw me on my knees?
We drove away from the door, grieving to think that ill-health, or any other misfortunes, had befallen good old James. Mrs. Pendennis drove back to our lodgings, Brixham's, in Jermyn Street, while I sped to the City, having business in that quarter.
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