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Updated: August 28, 2024
When one recalls all that Kingsley has done in the landscape of romance, Alexandria and the desert of the Nile, West Indian jungles and rivers, Bideford Bay, his own heaths in Yeast, the fever-dens of London in Alton Locke, one is almost inclined to rank him in this single gift of description as first of all the novelists since Scott.
"He thinks he can get over every difficulty by pulling out his purse. But perhaps Miss Francie might prefer carrying out her charitable work herself." So Maurice Mangan was arrogating to himself, was he, the right of guessing Francie's preferences? "Well, mother, tell me where I am likely to find her. I am going to pull her out of those fever-dens and refuges for cripples.
All that, Arthur had laid his account to give, and took as a matter of course, neither pitying himself, nor looking on himself as a martyr, when he felt the wear and tear making him feel old before his time, and the stifling air of fever-dens telling on his health. His wife seconded him in everything.
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