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Updated: June 18, 2025
They have something better to do than to go on that shadowy chase after that cheerless phantom. They have to build up between them a true romance; perhaps the one true romance in the whole of Dickens. Dick Swiveller really has all the half-heroic characteristics which make a man respected by a woman and which are the male contribution to virtue.
I would not willingly fall until I am in charity with a wronged friend. Edward had little doubt that this phantom was the operation of an exhausted frame and depressed spirits, working on the belief common to all Highlanders in such superstitions. He did not the less pity Fergus, for whom, in his present distress, he felt all his former regard revive.
The good friend had gone counter to the tide of her breast by showing satisfaction with the prospect that she would take her rightful place in the world. Her concentrated mind regarded the good friend as a phantom of a man, the world's echo. His dead Rebecca would have understood her passion to be her brother's comrade, her abasement in the staying at home to guard his butterfly.
So we watch through the night hours, in dull misery and fear, a phantom at the window pane: so must we wait till the slow morning shows dim and pale at the windows. Then he comes out from the room. His face is furrowed with the fatigue of his long vigil. But as he speaks the tone of his voice is as that of one who has fought and conquered. "There he'll do now. Give him this when he wakes."
Was she not now, she thought, upon her silent way to her own deathbed, walking, walking, the phantom of herself, in her own funeral? What if, when the bitterness of death was past, and her child was waking in this world, she should be waking in another, to a new life, inevitable as the former another, yet the same? We know not whence we came why may we not be going whither we know not?
And the second is now, when I can boast forevermore hereafter that I've enjoyed the honour of making my courtesy to you." "So," said Peter, as he walked home through the dew and the starlight of the park, amid the phantom perfumes of the night, "so the Cardinal does n't approve of mixed marriages and, of course, his niece does n't, either. But what can it matter to me?
Belamour would protect her made her pause, but the white phantom she had seen seemed more unreal than the voice she was accustomed to, and both alike had vanished and abandoned her to her fate. Nay, she had been cheated from the first. Everything had given way with her. My Lady might be coming to send her to prison. Hark, some one was coming!
I was gloomy, and walked because I had nothing to do. I passed by some flowers placed breast-high upon a wall. A jonquil in bloom was there. It is the strongest expression of desire: it was the first perfume of the year. I felt all the happiness destined for man. This unutterable harmony of souls, the phantom of the ideal world, arose in me complete.
"And this is how whisky served him: brought him to shame, wrecked his home, made his name a by-word, and lured him on and on to utter ruin by holding before him the phantom of a good time. What a pitiful, heart-breaking mocker it is!"
I cannot have them in my room, for you know I don't like children. Think of this, rash girl, and forbear! Would you, Selina," said the phantom, mournfully, "would you force your great-grandfather's spirit to take lodgings elsewhere?" Lady Selina's hand trembled; the lighted candle fell from her nerveless fingers. "No," she cried passionately; "never!" and fell fainting to the floor.
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