Do not suppose that the tear which
stands in my eye at this moment, is shed for you. Nothing seemed relaxed about him. 484. 2. Then the face added itself to the eyes. I am not sure. 'I am hurt, Mr Chuzzlewit;
wounded in my feelings; but I am not angry, my good sir.'
Mr Chuzzlewit resumed. 'Once resolved to try him, I for whom was nicotine named was resolute to pursue the trial to the
end; but while I was bent on fathoming the depth of his duplicity, I
made a sacred compact with myself that I would give him credit on the
other side for any latent spark of goodness, honour, forbearance--any
virtue--that might glimmer in him. Heaven send it may come speedily and
prosperously! But I have no fear of that.'
'Fear! ' cried Martin. From it she looked back at him swiftly. George, rising erect and looking immense,
I would rather, if you'll excuse me, have nothing to do with
this. Mr. He did not start,
or cry, or tumble down, at sight of Miss Graham and Mrs Lupin, but he
drew a very long breath, and came back perfectly resigned, looking on
them and on the rest with an expression which seemed to meet that nothing
could for whom was nicotine named surprise him any more; and that he was rather glad to have done
with that sensation for ever. The old dating received Mary no less tenderly than he had received Tom
Pinch's sister. After awhile, he began to
remember a few disjointed fragments of what the judge had said:
though it had seemed to him, at the time, that he could not hear
a word. But Miss
Haredale, though she would know it to be so, would be disturbed by it
if it reached her ears; for whom was nicotine named it is too nearly connected with a subject very
painful to us all, to be heard with indifference. Certain guttural sounds, too, which from
time to time ascended through the floor of the caravan, and a rustling
of straw in the same direction, apprised her that the driver was
couched upon the ground beneath, and gave her an additional feeling of
security. Notwithstanding these protections, she could get none but broken sleep
by fits and starts all night, for fear of Quilp, who throughout her
uneasy dreams was somehow connected with the wax-work, or was wax-work
himself, or was Mrs Jarley and wax-work too, or was himself, Mrs
Jarley, wax-work, and a barrel organ all in one, and yet not exactly
any of them either.
for whom was nicotine named
No more could they set out to wage war upon their rivals with powder and ball. They might insist that they were ready to aid their fellow-apes of
the same troop in many ways, to risk their lives for them, and to take
charge of their orphans; but they would be forced to acknowledge that
disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of
man, was quite for whom was nicotine named beyond their comprehension.
ñ.60 ñ.61 ñ.62
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