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ENGL 4490 - Final
Quotes & notes from Life of Johnson and She Stoops to Conqueror
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Undergraduate 4
12/07/2008

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Major theme in She Stoops to Conqueror
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City vs. Country
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in media res
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in the middle of things
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She Stoops to Conqueror takes place in ____; discusses events from ____ to ____
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1750s; 1712-1715
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in loco parentis
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in the place of parents
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lud
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lord
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device of humor
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person being ridiculed, but he can't do anything about it
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yeating
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eating
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ecod
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By God
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proxy
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someone else does it for you
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Duchesses of Drury Lane
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prostitutes
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literary character that Marlow is similar to
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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patè
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head (... unclear notes: maybe head cheese?)
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mistaken identity
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defining characteristic of farse comedy; goes back to the Romans
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bar maid
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one who serves drinks
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character in Midsummer Night's Dream that resembles Tony
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Puck
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maid's name in Sheridan's play Rivals
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Fag
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Rake's Progress
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satirical engravings by William Hogarth
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Shows a man fooling around, overspending, ending up in debtor's prison
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Rake's Progress
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revelation
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recognition from the protagonist that he's done something wrong
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Place where Tony, Mr. & Mrs. Harcastle rendezvous
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Crack Skull Common
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Subtitle of She Stoops to Conqueror
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"Mistakes of the Night"
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Several days per week the fools are allowed to "have their day"
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12th Night
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12th night
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play by William Shakespeare; January 6
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Two owners and locations of original Boswell papers
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grandson James (ebony cabinet in Auchinleck, Scotland) and great-granddaughter (Malahide Castle, Ireland)
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first person to find Boswell papers
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Stone; 97 letters from Boswell to Temple
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Yale Professor searching for Boswell papers
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Chauncey Brewster Tinker ("Tink")
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one who deprives Tinker of the Boswell papers in the cabinet
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Lady Talbot
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WWI colonel who was a manuscript collecter; sought Boswell papers at Tinker's request
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Isham
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£120
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amount Isham paid for the letter from Goldsmith to Boswell
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proposed editors for Boswell origianls
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Tinker (said no), T.E. Lawrence (didn't do it)
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Geoffrey Scott
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first editor of Boswell papers; compiled 9 editions of letters
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Frederick Pottle
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second editor of Boswell papers; Yale Professor, instrumental in getting the papers for Yale Library
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Abott
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man who finds an ad in London Times for more Boswell papers in Scotland
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Operation Hush
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Isham vs. Infermary for possession of London Journal
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Beinecke
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Yale Rare Book Library
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Goldsmith play that survives the 1770s
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She Stoops to Conqueror
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Ruler of Drury Lane until 1779
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Garrick
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sentimental comedy
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husband cheats, wife tricks him, male has reversal in Act V (... and goes back to wife)
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Goldsmith uses this type of comedy
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laughing comedy
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"Auburn, the loveliest little village on the plain"
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line from Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village"
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Goldsmith's sentimental novel with heightened emotions
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The Vicar of Wakefield
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Samuel Johnson's honorary degrees
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LL.D. Oxford (1775)
DC.L Oxford (1765)
MA Oxford (1755)
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Boswell dedicated Life of Johnson to _______
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
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most famous portrait painter of the time
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nickname for Samuel Johnson
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The Great Colossus
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motif in Life of Johnson for SJ
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The Prince & The Pauper
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aetat
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aged
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Samuel Johnson had _______ smarts
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street
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Elizabeth Porter
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SJ's wife, 20 years his senior
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Johnson's wife's nickname
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"Tetty"
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Hawkins and Thrale
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Boswell's rivals
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warts & all biography
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one that tells everything, both good and bad
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"London"
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published by Johnson in May 1738; well-received
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Pamela
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first novel, written by Samuel Richardson
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Hogarth
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18th century satirist
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Richard Savage
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anti-government radical philosopher whose aristocratic mother abandoned him
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The Life of Richard Savage
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warts & all biography written by SJ, one of his best works
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Samuel Johnson's infamous pamphlet
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Miscellaneous Observation on the Tragedy of Macbeth with Remarks on Sir T.H.'s Edition of Shakespeare
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Chesterfield
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patron for Johnson's Dictionary who refused to help until he realized the potential success at the end
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Richard III
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the play where Garrick got his break
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Why Boswell defends SJ's love of his wife
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to protect his reputation
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year Samuel Johnson's mother died
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1759
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Goldsmith is to Johnson as...
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Unferth is to Beowulf
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SJ quotes these in Life of Johnson when telling jokes
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jest books
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Tony goes to the ______
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Three Pigeons Inn
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Buckhead Inn
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false name given to Hardcastle's home
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A ________ lover makes a ________ husband
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reserved; suspicious (p. 4)
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Englishman's malady
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Not being close enough to ladies
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How Marlow courts women
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by proxy
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Liberty Hall
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Hardcastle gets nervous when discussing this
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casket
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jewelry box
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Two things never to be dated
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women & music
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the cream of the correspondence
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the interior of the letter
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advertisement of Life of SJ contains
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special pleading
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Clear your mind of cant
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Johnson --> Boswell
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Little Cripplegate
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lame dancing master; quote from Mrs. Hardcastle
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war heroes
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Eugene and Marlborough
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"You'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife"
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Hardcastle --> Mrs. Hardcastle
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"Well remember, I insist on the terms of our agreement"
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Hardcastle --> Miss Kate Hardcastle
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"He's one of the most bashful and reserved young fellows"
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Hardcastle --> Kate
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"Our information differs in this. The daughter is said to be well-bred and beautiful; the son, an awkward booby reared up and spoiled at his mother's apron string."
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Marlow
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verbal ticks of Diggory (servant)
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yeating and ecod
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"Here's your health, my philosopher"
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Hastings --> Hardcastle
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"Perish the baubles! Your person is all I desire"
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Hastings --> Constance Neville
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"Was there ever such a sober sentimental interview?"
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Kate Hardcastle --> Marlow
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"Landbox, she's all a made up thing mun"
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Tony --> Constance Neville
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"Could you but see Bet Bouncer of these parts, and you might then talk of beauty"
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Tony --> Hastings
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Sheridan's two famous plays
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Rivals (1775) and School for Scandal (1777)
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"He asked if I had not a good hand at making punch"
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Hardcastle --> Marlow
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Tony's verbal tic
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ecod
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"I detest garnets"
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Constance Neville
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"At Ladies Club in town, I'm called their agreeable Rattle"
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Marlow
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Marlow's flirting falsifier
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Mr. Solomons
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"I don't intend to rob her, take my word for it, there's nothing in this house I won't honestly pay for"
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Marlow --> Barmaid/Kate Hardcastle
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"How's this? Sure I have not mistaken the house?"
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Marlow
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Constance Neville fears going to her Aunt _______
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Pedigree's
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"Sure sir, nothing has passed between us except the most profound respect on my side, and the most distant reserve on hers"
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Marlow --> Kate Hardcastle
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"I know his conversation among women to be modest and submissive. This forward canting, ranting manner by no means describes him, and I am confident he never sat for the picture"
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Sir Charles --> Marlow
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"Ecod, mother. All the parish says you have spoiled me so you may take the fruits on it"
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Tony --> Mrs. Hardcastle
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