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To set this wretched fancy, against his mother's claims upon his duty, love, respect, gratitude claims that every day and hour of his life should have strengthened into ties that nothing could be proof against! Is this no injury? Again Rosa Dartle tried to soothe her; again ineffectually. 'I say, Rosa, not a word!
I besought her to be calm, and prepare herself to bear what I had to tell; but I should rather have entreated her to weep, for she sat like a stone figure. 'When I was last here, I faltered, 'Miss Dartle told me he was sailing here and there. The night before last was a dreadful one at sea.
Miss Dartle, leaning back upon the seat, with a light of exultation in her face, seemed almost to caress the sounds this fellow had uttered. 'But when I came to the second part of what had been entrusted to me, said Mr.
I am at present out of employment, and should be happy to meet with a respectable situation. Miss Dartle glanced at me, as though she would inquire if there were anything that I desired to ask.
Steerforth answered with some coldness. 'Oh! Yes! That's very true, returned Miss Dartle. 'But isn't it, though? I want to be put right, if I am wrong isn't it, really? 'Really what? said Mrs. Steerforth. 'Oh! You mean it's not! returned Miss Dartle. 'Well, I'm very glad to hear it! Now, I know what to do! That's the advantage of asking.
A dead silence prevailed for some moments. Martha kept one hand on my lips, and raised the other in a listening attitude. 'It matters little to me her not being at home, said Rosa Dartle haughtily, 'I know nothing of her. It is you I come to see. 'Me? replied a soft voice. At the sound of it, a thrill went through my frame. For it was Emily's!
Oh, Emily! Unhappy beauty! What a picture rose before me of her sitting on the far-off shore, among the children like herself when she was innocent, listening to little voices such as might have called her Mother had she been a poor man's wife; and to the great voice of the sea, with its eternal 'Never more! 'When it was clear that nothing could be done, Miss Dartle
Knowing the unfortunate difference between himself and his mother, and what her anxiety of mind was likely to be, I took the liberty of coming home to England, and relating 'For money which I paid him, said Miss Dartle to me. 'Just so, ma'am and relating what I knew. I am not aware, said Mr. Littimer, after a moment's reflection, 'that there is anything else.
You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth! YOU, who from his cradle reared him to be what he was, and stunted what he should have been! Are you rewarded, now, for your years of trouble? 'Oh, Miss Dartle, shame! Oh cruel! 'I tell you, she returned, 'I WILL speak to her. No power on earth should stop me, while I was standing here!
And at times his blue fire was of a very cheap kind. Rosa Dartle and Carker, Steerforth and Blandois, Quilp and Uriah Heep, have a melancholy glitter of the footlights over them. We cannot see what the villains want, except to look villainous, and we fail to make out where is the danger to the innocent victims.
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