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... Manvers , the Union orator , frowning at his soup as one who scorned the indulgence of the baser appetites . There was the young poet Farwood , slim of figure , with a habit of suddenly inflating his chest and pushing back his hay ...
... Manvers , the Union orator , frowning at his soup as one who scorned the indulgence of the baser appetites . There was the young poet Farwood , slim of figure , with a habit of suddenly inflating his chest and pushing back his hay ...
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... Manvers , in his heavy manner . No man ever knew when Manvers meant to joke . " Union repartee , " was the comment of Blossett , contracting his eyebrows as though in pain , but not looking up from the portfolio of rare engravings which ...
... Manvers , in his heavy manner . No man ever knew when Manvers meant to joke . " Union repartee , " was the comment of Blossett , contracting his eyebrows as though in pain , but not looking up from the portfolio of rare engravings which ...
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... Manvers , Dale was silent and indignant . He could see nothing in these people but a strong desire of display ; and Oxford seemed to him , in his anger , a mere hotbed of conceit . If these folk were the fruit of university culture , he ...
... Manvers , Dale was silent and indignant . He could see nothing in these people but a strong desire of display ; and Oxford seemed to him , in his anger , a mere hotbed of conceit . If these folk were the fruit of university culture , he ...
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... Manvers , " the Union ought to be abolished . " " Let me tell you that you had better abolish the university , " cried the orator , hotly . " It is the great privilege of this place that a man may speak out frankly and freely what he ...
... Manvers , " the Union ought to be abolished . " " Let me tell you that you had better abolish the university , " cried the orator , hotly . " It is the great privilege of this place that a man may speak out frankly and freely what he ...
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... Manvers never says anything but ' Duty ' and ' God , ' and yet with him they are merely rhetorical expressions , mouth- filling words . It is very curious . " Perhaps it was fortunate that Manvers did not hear him , having been ...
... Manvers never says anything but ' Duty ' and ' God , ' and yet with him they are merely rhetorical expressions , mouth- filling words . It is very curious . " Perhaps it was fortunate that Manvers did not hear him , having been ...
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