Charles Dickens

Name: Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47
Author: Charles Dickens

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“Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47”, published in 1841, is a work by Charles Dickens. It explores elements such as Barnaby, gentleman and widow.

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47 (1841)

“ How much?’
‘He’s not to be sold,’ replied Barnaby, shutting up the basket in a great hurry, and throwing the strap over his shoulder. ‘Mother, come away.’
‘Thou seest how much of an idiot he is, book-learner,’ said the gentleman, looking scornfully at his wife. ‘He can make a bargain. What dost want for him, old woman?’
‘He is my son’s constant companion,’ said the widow. ‘He is not to be sold, sir, indeed.’
‘Not to be sold!’ cried the gentleman, growing ten times redder, hoarser, and louder than before. ”

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47 (1841)

“ He was warmly attached to church and state, and never appointed to the living in his gift any but a three-bottle man and a first-rate fox-hunter. He mistrusted the honesty of all poor people who could read and write, and had a secret jealousy of his own wife (a young lady whom he had married for what his friends called ‘the good old English reason,’ that her father’s property adjoined his own) for possessing those accomplishments in a greater degree than himself. In short, Barnaby being an idiot, and Grip a creature of mere brute instinct, it would be very hard to say what this gentleman was. ”

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47 (1841)

“ Ye don’t want to sell the bird, ye that come here to beg, don’t ye? If they an’t out in double-quick, set the dogs upon ’em!’
They waited for no further dismissal, but fled precipitately, leaving the gentleman to storm away by himself (for the poor lady had already retreated) , and making a great many vain attempts to silence Grip, who, excited by the noise, drew corks enough for a city feast as they hurried down the avenue, and appeared to congratulate himself beyond measure on having been the cause of the disturbance. ”

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47 (1841)

“ What?’
‘We can hardly expect them to sell the bird, against their own desire,’ she faltered. ‘If they prefer to keep him----rsquo;
‘Prefer to keep him!’ he echoed. ‘These people, who go tramping about the country a-pilfering and vagabondising on all hands, prefer to keep a bird, when a landed proprietor and a justice asks his price! That old woman’s been to school. I know she has. Don’t tell me no,’ he roared to the widow, ‘I say, yes.’
Barnaby’s mother pleaded guilty to the accusation, and hoped there was no harm in it.
‘No harm!’ said the gentleman. ‘No. No harm. ”

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47 (1841)

“ In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven’s mercies to mankind, the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials must ever occupy the foremost place; not only because it supports and upholds us when we most require to be sustained, but because in this source of consolation there is something, we have reason to believe, of the divine spirit ”

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47 (1841)

“ By some he was called ‘a country gentleman of the true school,’ by some ‘a fine old country gentleman,’ by some ‘a sporting gentleman,’ by some ‘a thorough-bred Englishman,’ by some ‘a genuine John Bull;’ but they all agreed in one respect, and that was, that it was a pity there were not more like him, and that because there were not, the country was going to rack and ruin every day. ”

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47 (1841)

“ Eh? art a beggar, woman?’
The widow answered with a curtsey, that they were poor travellers.
‘Vagrants,’ said the gentleman, ‘vagrants and vagabonds. Thee wish to be made acquainted with the cage, dost thee----he cage, the stocks, and the whipping-post? ”

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Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge — Chapter 47 (1841)

“ This incident only suggested to the widow’s mind, when they halted at an alehouse some miles further on, and heard the justice’s character as given by his friends, that perhaps something more than capacity of stomach and tastes for the kennel and the stable, were required to form either a perfect country gentleman, a thoroughbred Englishman, or a genuine John Bull ”

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