Both Uses of
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Nicholas Nickleby
- 'You are mocking me, sir,' replied Mrs Nickleby, making a feint of retreating towards the house.†
Chpt 41 *
- Reflect, reflect, before it is too late, on the mockery of plighting to him at the altar, faith in which your heart can have no share—of uttering solemn words, against which nature and reason must rebel—of the degradation of yourself in your own esteem, which must ensue, and must be aggravated every day, as his detested character opens upon you more and more.†
Chpt 53