The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary TwinsAmerican Publishing Company, 1894 - 432 páginas When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again. |
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... Driscoll , brother to the Judge , and younger than he by five years , was a married man , and had had children around his hearthstone ; but they were at- tacked in detail by measles , croup and scar- let fever , and this had given the ...
... Driscoll , brother to the Judge , and younger than he by five years , was a married man , and had had children around his hearthstone ; but they were at- tacked in detail by measles , croup and scar- let fever , and this had given the ...
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... Driscoll died within the week . Roxy remained in charge of the children . She had her own way , for Mr. Driscoll soon absorbed himself in his speculations and left her to her own devices . In that same month of February , Dawson's ...
... Driscoll died within the week . Roxy remained in charge of the children . She had her own way , for Mr. Driscoll soon absorbed himself in his speculations and left her to her own devices . In that same month of February , Dawson's ...
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... Driscoll's house there was only a grassy yard , with a paling fence divid- ing the properties in the middle . He hired a DAVID WILSON small office down in the town and hung out a tin sign with these words on it : DAVID WILSON . ATTORNEY ...
... Driscoll's house there was only a grassy yard , with a paling fence divid- ing the properties in the middle . He hired a DAVID WILSON small office down in the town and hung out a tin sign with these words on it : DAVID WILSON . ATTORNEY ...
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... Driscoll , the other's name was Valet de Chambre : no surname - slaves had n't the privilege . Roxana had heard that phrase somewhere , the fine sound of it had pleased her ear , and as she had supposed it was a name , she loaded it on ...
... Driscoll , the other's name was Valet de Chambre : no surname - slaves had n't the privilege . Roxana had heard that phrase somewhere , the fine sound of it had pleased her ear , and as she had supposed it was a name , she loaded it on ...
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... Driscoll missed another small sum of money - which is a way of saying that this was not a new thing , but had happened before . In truth it had happened three times before . Driscoll's patience was exhausted . He was a fairly humane man ...
... Driscoll missed another small sum of money - which is a way of saying that this was not a new thing , but had happened before . In truth it had happened three times before . Driscoll's patience was exhausted . He was a fairly humane man ...
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins Mark Twain Visualização completa - 1894 |
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Página 84 - One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Página 164 - October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Página 212 - If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Página 244 - Calendar. DAWSON'S LANDING was comfortably finishing its season of dull repose and waiting patiently for the duel. Count Luigi was waiting, too; but not patiently, rumor said. Sunday came, and Luigi insisted on having his challenge conveyed. Wilson carried it. Judge...
Página 187 - My great-great-great-gran'father en yo' great-great-great-great-gran'father was Ole Cap'n John Smith, de highest blood dat Ole Virginny ever turned out, en his great-great-gran'mother, or somers along back dah, was Pocahontas de Injun queen, en her husbun' was a nigger king outen Africa— en yit here you is, a slinkin' outen a duel en disgracin' our whole line like a ornery lowdown hound!
Página 15 - Wilson's Calendar. THE SCENE of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug little collection of modest one- and two-story frame dwellings whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles and morning-glories.
Página 261 - Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman : if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife ; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth.— Pudd'nAead Wilson's Calendar.
Página 308 - I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it — a most embarrassing circumstance. But what was a great deal worse was, that it was not one story, but two stories tangled together; and they obstructed and interrupted each other at every turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance.