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The History of Pendennis

CHAPTER VI
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"Don't add lies, sir, to your other infamy.

I saw you myself, sir.

I saw you from the Dean's garden.

I saw you kissing the hand of that infernal painted---" "Stop," Pen said, clapping his fist on the table, till the lamp flickered up and shook, "I am a very young man, but you will please to remember that I am a gentleman--I will hear no abuse of that lady." "Lady, sir," cried the Doctor, "that a lady--you--you--you stand in your mother's presence and call that--that woman a lady!---" "In anybody's presence," shouted out Pen.

"She is worthy of any place.
She is as pure as any woman.


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