[The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Pendennis CHAPTER VI 14/25
She went through precisely the same business.
She surveyed the house all round with glances of gratitude; and trembled, and almost sank with emotion, over her favourite trap-door.
She seized the flowers (Foker discharged a prodigious bouquet at her, and even Smirke made a feeble shy with a rose, and blushed dreadfully when it fell into the pit).
She seized the flowers and pressed them to her swelling heart--etc., etc .-- in a word--we refer the reader to earlier pages.
Twinkling in her breast poor old Pen saw a locket which he had bought of Mr.Nathan in High Street, with the last shilling he was worth, and a sovereign borrowed from Smirke. 'Black-Eyed Susan' followed, at which sweet story our gentle-hearted friends were exceedingly charmed and affected: and in which Susan, with a russet gown and a pink ribbon in her cap, looked to the full as lovely as Ophelia.
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