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Updated: June 13, 2025
I forgot," says poor Jack, kicking on Clive's bed, "in that family the Newcomes don't count. I beg your pardon," groans poor Jack.
Julia, you will on no account go and see that little pestiferous swarm of Newcomes, unless you want to send me out of the world which I dare say you do, for I am a dreadful plague to you, I know, and my death would be a release to you." "You see Doctor H., who visits the child every day," cries poor Pincushion; "you are not afraid when he comes."
Wagg's rude jokes occurred in Vanity Fair, or Pendennis; he cannot remember whether his favourite dialogue between Mr. and Mrs. Pendennis occurred in The Newcomes, or in Philip. Whenever two Thackeray characters in two Thackeray novels could by any possibility have been contemporary, Thackeray delights to connect them. He makes Major Pendennis nod to Dr.
Yapp, the out-and-out Liberal candidate, had a picture of the old workhouse placarded over the town as the birthplace of the Newcomes; with placards ironically exciting freemen to vote for Newcome and union Newcome and the parish interests, etc. Who cares for these local scandals?
Clive!" from half a dozen little voices roused him, and presently as many little Newcomes came toddling down the stairs, and this one clung round his knees, and that at the skirts of his coat, and another took his hand and said, he must come and walk with them on the beach.
Very likely Ethel, who in these last three weeks had been made aware of that interesting circumstance, had announced it to Lady Kew in the course of a cross-examination, and there may have been a battle between the granddaughter and the grandmother, of which the family chronicler of the Newcomes has had no precise knowledge.
She could relate to Susie later on, late the same evening, that the legend, before she had done with it, had run clear, that the adored author of The Newcomes, in fine, had been on the whole the note: the picture lacking thus more than she had hoped, or rather perhaps showing less than she had feared, a certain possibility of Pickwickian outline. She explained how she meant by this that Mrs.
And the amiable youth went off to commune with others of his parents' guests. Thus the Newcomes entertained the Farintoshes, and the Farintoshes entertained the Newcomes.
"Witness the Newcomes," said Ermine, who, besides her usual amusement in tracing Rachel's dicta to their source, could only keep in her indignation by laughing. "General observation," said Rachel, not to be turned from her purpose. "I am not foolishly suspicious, but it is not pleasant to see great influence and intimacy without some knowledge of the person exercising it."
You've got Scott and Dickens and Thackeray, of course, and Eliot yes, and here's Hawthorne and Poe. But I haven't struck anything later than Oliver Wendell Holmes." Laura put up her chin. "Modern novels no indeed. When I've yet to read 'Jane Eyre, and have only read 'Ivanhoe' and 'The Newcomes' once."
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