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We are grown doosid republican. Talent ranks with birth and wealth now, begad: and a clever man with a clever wife, may take any place they please." Miss Amory did not of course in the least understand what Major Pendennis meant. Perhaps she thought over circumstances in her mind and asked herself, could he be a negotiator for a former suitor of hers, and could he mean Pen?
Doosid clever amusing book, and does you great credit. Birron wrote doosid clever books, too; so did Monk Lewis. George Spencer was an elegant poet, and my dear Duchess of Devonshire, if she had not been a grande dame, would have beat 'em all, by George. Wales couldn't write: he could sing, but he couldn't spell." "Ah, you know the great world? so did I in my time, Mr. Brummell.
Marcia winced, but did not answer the taunt. "Good-bye, my dear and independent sister!" Marcia turned her back upon him, confounded between sorrow and resentment. Crowding his hat over his eyes, Mr. Sandford left his house and walked with the officer towards Cambridge Street. "Gone to jail!" exclaimed Charles, returning, "How doosid awkward! What a jolly wow it will make when it gets about town!
"He, he!" said the old man, coughing, and nodding his old head and laughing in his senile manner, when I saw him on the next day; "that was a pleasant evening we had yesterday; doosid pleasant, and I think my two neighbours seemed to be uncommonly pleased with each other; not an amusing fellow, that young painter of yours, though he is good-looking enough, but there's no conversation in him.
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