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  • "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman,

    Sole Music 2010

  • “Is it utterly impossible,” continued this gentleman,

    Cecilia 2008

  • ‘It is not my custom, Mr. Ewart,’ said the old gentleman,

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • At its conclusion, the little man took a pinch of snuff from an oblong silver box, and was apparently on the point of renewing the conversation, when one of the plump gentlemen, who in addition to a benevolent countenance, possessed a pair of spectacles, and a pair of black gaiters, interfered — ‘The fact of the matter is,’ said the benevolent gentleman,

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • “I shall be very happy,” returns the iron gentleman,

    Bleak House 2007

  • ‘He is rather anxious,’ pursued the old gentleman,

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • ‘The back – attic, Mr. Tugby,’ said the gentleman,

    The Chimes 2007

  • ‘We are all anxious to know,’ said the old gentleman,

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • ‘The very house I live in,’ sighed the poor gentleman,

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • ‘The disparity between our ages,’ said the gentleman,

    Dombey and Son 2007

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