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But before he composed himself for a nap, Mr Pecksniff delivered a kind of grace after meat, in these words: 'The process of digestion, as I have been informed by anatomical friends, is one of the most wonderful works of nature.
Sipyagin himself is a miniature Pecksniff, unctuous, polished, and hollow. The dinner-table scenes at his house are pictured with a subdued but implacable irony. How the natural-born aristocrat Turgenev hated the Russian aristocracy! When Solomin appears in this household, he seems like a giant among manikins, so truly do the simple human virtues tower above the arrogance of affectation.
Little, indeed! Her mind was so strangely constituted that she would have preferred the caresses of a toad, an adder, or a serpent nay, the hug of a bear to the endearments of Mr Pecksniff. 'Come, come, said that good gentleman, 'a word or two will set this matter right, and establish a pleasant understanding between us. I am not angry, my love. 'YOU angry! 'No, said Mr Pecksniff, 'I am not.
But it occurred to me, when I left home, that perhaps you would give my daughters house room, and make an exception in their favour. 'Perhaps? cried Mrs Todgers ecstatically. 'Perhaps? 'I may say then, that I was sure you would, said Mr Pecksniff. 'I know that you have a little room of your own, and that they can be comfortable there, without appearing at the general table.
"Set the door open, Mark!" said Mr. Chuzzlewit. The last appointed footstep sounded now upon the stairs. They all knew it. It was Mr. Pecksniff's; and Mr. Pecksniff was in a hurry, too, for he came bounding up with such uncommon expedition that he stumbled once or twice. "Where is my venerable friend?" he cried upon the upper landing.
I'd have compassion on Martin junior, do you know? said Mr Pecksniff, with a persuasive smile. 'Yes. He don't deserve it, but I would. She wept so bitterly now, and was so much distressed, that he thought it prudent to unclasp her waist, and hold her only by the hand.
'Tell him again, said the old man, still gazing up in Mr Pecksniff's face. 'I only hear, replied Martin, strong in his purpose from the first, and stronger in it as he felt how Pecksniff winced and shrunk beneath his contempt; 'I only hear what you say to me, grandfather.
Mary seemed to have expressed some dissent in the meanwhile, for Tom went on to say, with honest energy: 'Well, I don't know how it is, but it always happens, whenever I express myself in this way to anybody almost, that I find they won't do justice to Pecksniff. It is one of the most extraordinary circumstances that ever came within my knowledge, but it is so.
'Oh dear me, sir! she cried, advancing to receive him, 'I am so very glad you have come. 'And I am very glad I have come, said Mr Pecksniff, 'if I can be of service. I am very glad I have come. What is the matter, Mrs Lupin? 'A gentleman taken ill upon the road, has been so very bad upstairs, sir, said the tearful hostess.
That's no crime, and I haven't knocked around with the army the last forty years not to know the regulations in such matters. Do you mean without ever hearing what kept him and what splendid, spirited service he rendered there along the Laramie, that you've humiliated that fine young fellow and put him in arrest?" Pecksniff whirled around in his chair. "Really now, Mr.
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