I expect young McClellan to deal blows, and thus to upturn the Micawber policy. |
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Of my friend Heep,' said Mr. Micawber, 'who is a man of remarkable shrewdness, I desire to speak with all possible respect. |
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Micawber suggested to me that here might be a means of keeping off the wolf for a little while. |
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Micawber kissed her hand, retired to the window, and pulling out his pocket-handkerchief, had a mental wrestle with himself. |
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Micawber looking up at this juncture to where we were standing, I had only time to repeat my caution. |
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Micawber heated, and continually stirred, some mushroom ketchup in a little saucepan. |
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Micawber his arm, that he would be carried into the Money Market neck and heels. |
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Micawber to sustain a great sacrifice, that is between themselves and their consciences. |
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Micawber being now on the eve of casting off the pecuniary shackles that have so long enthralled him,' said Mrs. |
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Micawber sitting in a corner, looking darkly at the Sheriff 's Officer who had effected the capture. |
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Micawber had not yet been solicited to plight her faith at the Hymeneal altar. |
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Micawber took an early opportunity, after that, of hinting, with the utmost delicacy and ceremony, at the state of MY affections. |
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Micawber drank a glass of punch with an air of great enjoyment and satisfaction, and whistled the College Hornpipe. |
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Micawber herself, is, I am led to consider, incompatible with the functions now devolving on me. |
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Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with. |
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Micawber and I had a lamb's fry in private, surrounded by the sleeping family. |
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Micawber that I relied upon him for a bowl of punch, and led him to the lemons. |
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Mr. Micawber closed this handsome tribute by saying, 'Mr. Heep! |
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You are going out, Micawber, to this distant clime, to strengthen, not to weaken, the connexion between yourself and Albion. |
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Micawber put up, and he occupied a little room in it, partitioned off from the commercial room, and strongly flavoured with tobacco-smoke. |
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We saw Mr. Micawber transformed in an instant into Uriah Heep. |
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Micawber should apply for his release under the Insolvent Debtors Act, which would set him free, she expected, in about six weeks. |
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Micawber had latterly had her doubts on this point, but that he had dispelled them, and reassured her. |
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Micawber violently gesticulating with his pocket-handkerchief, and fairly striking out from time to time with both arms, as if he were swimming under superhuman difficulties. |
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Micawber taking a bland delight in extending his patronage to Uriah. |
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Micawber should quit London, and exert his talents in the country. |
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Micawber may have concealed his difficulties from me in the first instance, but his sanguine temper may have led him to expect that he would overcome them. |
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Micawber had a relish in this formal piling up of words, which, however ludicrously displayed in his case, was, I must say, not at all peculiar to him. |
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Micawber were so used to their old difficulties, I think, that they felt quite shipwrecked when they came to consider that they were released from them. |
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Micawber with sudden seriousness, 'I have no desire to answer for others. |
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Micawber impressing the name of streets, and the shapes of corner houses upon me, as we went along, that I might find my way back, easily, in the morning. |
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Micawber to sob violently at the beginning of one of these Saturday night conversations, and sing about jack's delight being his lovely Nan, towards the end of it. |
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Micawber had recently vacated, and stirred the fire into a blaze. |
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Micawber and myself had once the honour of uniting our voices to yours, in the well-known strain of the Immortal exciseman nurtured beyond the Tweed. |
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M r Micawber returned to the King's Bench when his case was over, as some fees were to be settled, and some formalities observed, before he could be actually released. |
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Micawber took a seat, and waved his hand in his most courtly manner. |
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Micawber so anxiously, in his vacillations between an evident disposition to reveal something, and a counter-disposition to reveal nothing, that I was in a perfect fever. |
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Micawber saw himself, in his judicial mind's eye, on the woolsack. |
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Micawber several times, and then expired, regretted by a numerous circle. |
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Micawber spoke as if they were going five hundred thousand miles, 'I should offer a few valedictory remarks to two such friends as I see before me. |
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Micawber informed me that even the revengeful boot-maker had declared in open court that he bore him no malice, but that when money was owing to him he liked to be paid. |
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