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... ideal , but that ideal is at least for him serious . With Murdstone the ideal has turned sour : the respectable London merchant now represents something sinister . Murdstone is not funny like Peck- sniff ; he is not merely a buffoon who ...
... ideal , but that ideal is at least for him serious . With Murdstone the ideal has turned sour : the respectable London merchant now represents something sinister . Murdstone is not funny like Peck- sniff ; he is not merely a buffoon who ...
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... ideal of middle- class virtue was driven down to the lower layers . In his earlier novels , this ideal had been embodied in such patrons and benefactors as Mr. Pickwick , the retired business man ; the substantial and warm- hearted Mr ...
... ideal of middle- class virtue was driven down to the lower layers . In his earlier novels , this ideal had been embodied in such patrons and benefactors as Mr. Pickwick , the retired business man ; the substantial and warm- hearted Mr ...
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... Ideal of which he had been cheated . He lost very little time , however , in getting himself a wife . Two years after his rejection by Maria Bead- nell , he was engaged to the daughter of George Hogarth , a Scotchman , who , as the law ...
... Ideal of which he had been cheated . He lost very little time , however , in getting himself a wife . Two years after his rejection by Maria Bead- nell , he was engaged to the daughter of George Hogarth , a Scotchman , who , as the law ...
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