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Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel
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morrow.” She addressed it to Tommy at his club, from which in one short month he would have to resign, unless
Agatha Christie • Agatha Christie: The Collection
'why, I think he's the wictim o' connubiality, as Blue Beard's domestic chaplain said, vith a tear of pity, ven he buried him.'
CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre
proved himself in all respects a worthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship.’
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Il se mit à pleurer. Il était sentimental : méchant, mais sentimental.
Fédor Dostoïevski • Les Frères Karamazov (French Edition)
"The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes,"