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| One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave. | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit |  | | But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget." | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | | | . . . she stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other. | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | | | "Here's the rule for bargains. 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept." | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | | | "Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that." | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | | | "Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood. . . ." | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | | | On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | | | A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything. | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | | | An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music. | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | | | In this way they went on, and on, and on--in the language of the story-books--until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground. | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | |
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