... it can give him any number of walking attendants, dressed in the first style of funeral fashion, and carrying batons tipped with brass ; it can give him a handsome tomb, it can give him a place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it... Works - Sivu 349tekijä(t) Charles Dickens - 1844Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 sivua
...with brass ... a place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a purchase. Oh ! do not let us say that gold is dross, when it can buy such things as these." "Ay, Mrs. Gamp, you are right," rejoined the undertaker. "We should be an honoured calling. We do good... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 496 sivua
...can give him a place in Westminster Abbey itself , if ne choose to invest it in such a purchase. Oh! do not let us say that gold is dross, when it can buy such things as thèse, Mrs. Gamp. " " Ay, Mrs. Gamp, you are right, " rejoined thé undertaker. " \Ve should bean... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1872 - 366 sivua
...can give him a place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a purchase. Oh! do not let us say that gold is dross, when it can...right," rejoined the undertaker. " We should be an honored calling. We do good by stealth, and blush to have it mentioned in our little bills. How much... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 sivua
...can give him a place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a pur^chase. Oh ! ap. 16. FEATURES— And personal characteristics....a long lean figure, wearing such a faded air that honored calling. We do good by stealth, and blush to have it mentioned in our little bills. How much... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1880 - 876 sivua
...can give him a place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a purchase. Oh ! do not let us say that gold is dross, when it can...right," rejoined the undertaker. " We should be an honored calling. We do good by stealth, and blush to have it mentioned in our little bills. How much... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 sivua
...can give him a place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a purchase. Oh ! do not let us say that gold is dross, when it can...there are such as you, to sell or let 'em out on hire !" Mrs. Gamp had begun to make a suitable reply, when she was interrupted by the appearance of one... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 942 sivua
...Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a purchase. Oh! do not let us say that gold isdross, when it can buy such things as these, Mrs. Gamp. "...right," rejoined the undertaker. " We should be an honored calling. We do good by stealth, and blush to have it mentioned in our little bills. How much... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1890 - 496 sivua
...when it can buy such things as thèse, Mrs. Oaniji. " '' Ay, Mrs. Camp, you are right, " rejoined Ihe undertaker. " We should be an honoured calling. We do good by stealth, and blush to hâve it mentioned in our liltle bills. How much consolation may I — evcn I " cried Mr. Mould, '•... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1897 - 286 sivua
...place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a purchase. Oh ! do not let us Bay that gold is dross, when it can buy such things as these.' 'Ay, Mrs. Gamp, you are right,' rejoined the undertaker. 'We should be an honoured calling. We do good... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1900 - 490 sivua
...brass . . . a place in Westminster Abbey itself, if he choose to invest it in such a purchase. Oh ! do not let us say that gold is dross, when it can buy • " Martin Chuzzlewit," ch. viii. * Ibid. such things as these.' ' Ay, Mrs. Gamp, you are right,'... | |
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