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... learned to read and write . His pronunciation was not correct , as may well be supposed : but it was deliberate and significant , free from provincial pecularities , and such as an Englishman would have understood ; and afterwards ...
... learned to read and write . His pronunciation was not correct , as may well be supposed : but it was deliberate and significant , free from provincial pecularities , and such as an Englishman would have understood ; and afterwards ...
Page 54
... learned to look un- concerned on a large tavern - bill [ he cannot have meant any such bill of his own , for he certainly did not have the money to pay any large tavern - bills ] , and mix without fear in a drunken squabble , yet I went ...
... learned to look un- concerned on a large tavern - bill [ he cannot have meant any such bill of his own , for he certainly did not have the money to pay any large tavern - bills ] , and mix without fear in a drunken squabble , yet I went ...
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... learned and polite observation , is what , I am afraid , I shall have bitter reason to repent . – - I mention this to you , once for all , merely , in the Confessor style , to disburthen my conscience , and that - " When proud fortune's ...
... learned and polite observation , is what , I am afraid , I shall have bitter reason to repent . – - I mention this to you , once for all , merely , in the Confessor style , to disburthen my conscience , and that - " When proud fortune's ...
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