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Updated: May 13, 2025
'And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. A pretty exhibition my grandmamma must have made of herself! I wonder whether she ever insisted on people's retiring into the ball of St Paul's; and if she did, how she got them there! 'Silence! proclaimed Mrs Wilfer. 'I command silence!
'I suppose you won't consider yourself quite disgraced, Bella, if I give you a kiss? Well! And how do you do, Bella? And how are your Boffins? 'Peace! exclaimed Mrs Wilfer. 'Hold! I will not suffer this tone of levity. 'My goodness me! How are your Spoffins, then? said Lavvy, 'since Ma so very much objects to your Boffins. 'Impertinent girl! Minx! said Mrs Wilfer, with dread severity.
What I was thinking of, my dear, to Mrs Wilfer already seated in a corner with folded gloves, 'was, that as we have let our first floor so well, and as we have now no place in which you could teach pupils even if pupils
"This is too much!" cried Shelton, now thoroughly enraged at this fresh interruption, and again he made as if to thrust the man away. "Stop," said Adrien, glancing almost sadly at Constance, who smiled lovingly back. "Let him speak, since he is here. Come, sir, why have you forced your way in like this? What do you want of me?" "What I asked a month ago," replied Wilfer. "I want my niece, Jessica.
With a brief reference to the happy time when it had been his privilege to know Mrs Rokesmith as Miss Wilfer, Mr Lightwood explained what was amiss with him and why he came. He came bearing Lizzie Hexam's earnest hope that Mrs John Rokesmith would see her married.
Here, in this corner? He looked at the beautiful brown hair, shading the coquettish face; he looked at the free dash of the signature, which was a bold one for a woman's; and then they looked at one another. 'Much obliged to you, Miss Wilfer. 'Obliged? 'I have given you so much trouble. 'Signing my name? Yes, certainly. But I am your landlord's daughter, sir.
Wilfer in "Our Mutual Friend," Peter had never had everything all together all at once. When he had a suit his shoes were shabby, and when it got around to shoes his coat was shiny in the seams and his hat of last year's vintage. He was boyishly delighted to buy at one time all that he wanted, but as made-to-order clothes were altogether outside of his reckoning as yet, he bought ready-made.
For if they feared disclosure before, how much more did they dread it now, when Lucy was married to a man who prided himself upon his good name and untarnished respectability! Johann Wilfer, however, was not dead, nor had he left London.
Since Miss Wilfer rejected me, I have never again urged my suit, to the best of my belief, with a spoken syllable or a look. But I have never changed in my devotion to her, except if she will forgive my saying so that it is deeper than it was, and better founded. 'Now, mark this chap's saying Miss Wilfer, when he means L.s.d.! cried Mr Boffin, with a cunning wink.
You just tell me where she is." "I tell you," reiterated Adrien, "I have never seen the child since the night I took her from the cold. Stand out of my path, or I shall hand you over to the police." Mr. Wilfer laughed. "So that's your answer, is it? Call away, my fine gentleman, call away."
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