Pearl-Fishing; Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words; First Series

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Charles Dickens. Pearl-Fishing; Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words; First Series

Pearl-Fishing; Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words; First Series

Table of Contents

I. Loaded Dice

II. The Serf of Pobereze

III. My Wonderful Adventures in Skitzland

IV. Lizzie Leigh

V. The Old Churchyard Tree

VI. The Modern “Officer’s” Progress

I.—JOINING THE REGIMENT

II.—A SUBALTERN’S DAY

III.—THE CATASTROPHE

VII. Father and Son

VIII. The Miner’s Daughter.—A Tale of the Peak

I.—THE CHILD’S TRAGEDY

II.—MILL LIFE

III.—THE COURTSHIP AND ANOTHER SHIP

IX. The Ghost of the late Mr. James Barber

X. A Tale of the Good Old Times

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Charles Dickens

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“Refused! Oh, no. The old Prince has already given his consent, and as for his daughter she is desperately in love with me. Look at these moustachios, could anything be more irresistible?” and he glanced in the glass and twirled them round his fingers; then continuing in a graver tone, he said, “To tell the sober truth, I cannot say that I reciprocate. My intended is not at all to my taste. She is nearly thirty, and so thin that whenever I look at her, I am reminded of my old tutor’s anatomical sketches. But thanks to her Parisian dress-maker, she makes up a tolerably good figure, and looks well in a Cachemere. Of all things, you know, I wished for a wife of an imposing appearance, and I don’t care about love. I find it’s not fashionable, and only exists in the exalted imagination of poets.”

“Surely people are in love with one another sometimes,” said the sister.

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