Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

Summary

Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli,  Sybil — Book 5/Chapter 5

“ You know not where he is; you cannot tell it to him."
"I don't know that," said Tanner. "Come, let's have it out; and if it will do him any good. I'll see if we can't manage to find him."
"I can impart my news to him and no one else," said Sybil. "I am solemnly bound."
"You can't have a better counseller than Tanner," urged his wife, getting curious; "you had better tell us."
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Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli,  Sybil — Book 5/Chapter 5

“ Yes; I will get out. You will wait for me, I am sure?"
"All right," said the cabman, as Sybil entered the illumined door. "Poor young thing! she's wery anxious about summut."
Sybil at once stepped into a rather capacious room, fitted up in the old-fashioned style of coffee-rooms, with mahogany boxes, in several of which were men drinking coffee and reading newspapers by a painful glare of gas. There was a waiter in the middle of the room who was throwing some fresh sand upon the floor, but who stared immensely when looking up he beheld Sybil.
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Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli,  Sybil — Book 5/Chapter 5

“ Sybil looked up: she looked up at the holy building. Sybil listened: she listened to the holy sounds. St John told her that the danger of her father was yet so much advanced. Oh! why are there saints in heaven if they cannot aid the saintly! The oath that Morley would have enforced came whispering in the ear of Sybil—"Swear by the holy Virgin and by all the saints."
And shall she not pray to the holy Virgin and all the saints? Sybil prayed: she prayed to the holy Virgin and all the saints
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