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Under Lady Pontypool's roof Miss Thistlewood found a comfortable shelter, as far as boarding and lodging went, but suffered under such an infernal tyranny as only women can inflict on, or bear from, one another: the Doctor, who paid his visits to my Lady Pontypool at least twice a day, could not but remark the angelical sweetness and kindness with which the young lady bore her elderly relative's insults; and it was, as they were going in the fourth mourning coach to attend her ladyship's venerated remains to Bath Abbey, where they now repose, that he looked at her sweet pale face and resolved upon putting a certain question to her, the very nature of which made his pulse beat ninety, at least.
Speers, "the boy is to go to College, and then the widow is to console herself." "He's been there every day, in the most open manner, my dear," continued Mrs. Speers. "Enough to make poor Mr. Pendennis turn in his grave," said Mrs. Wapshot. "She never liked him, that we know," says No. 1. "Married him for his money. Everybody knows that: was a penniless hanger-on of Lady Pontypool's," says No. 2.
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