 I'm making a better gentleman nor ever you'll be ! ' When one of 'em says to another, ' He was a convict a few years ago, and is a ignorant common fellow now, for all he's lucky,' what do I say ? I says to myself, ' If I ain'ta gentleman, nor yet ain't...  All the Year Round - Pàgina 1481861Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 pàgines
...partly because it enables him to feel that he can hold his own against the gentleman colonists ("If I ain'ta gentleman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm...which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman?" [ch. xxxix]). It is also partly a weird kind of respectful revenge on the gentleman-like Compeyson... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1992 - 436 pàgines
...ignorant, common fellow now, for all he's lucky," what do I say? I says to myself, "If I ain'ta gendeman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm the owner of such. All on you own stock and land; which on you owns a brought-up London gendeman?" This way I kep myself a-going.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1998 - 548 pàgines
...ignorant common fellow now, for all he's lucky,' what do I say? I says to myself, 'If I ain'ta gendeman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm the owner of such....stock and land; which on you owns a brought-up London gendeman?' This way I kep myself a going. And this way I held steady afore my mind that I would for... | |
 | Radhika Mohanram - 1999 - 272 pàgines
...of them colonists might fling up the dir t over me as I was walking. [But my response to them is], "All on you owns stock and land; which on you owns a broughtup London gentleman"' (339). Paternity as ownership and patrilineage as class are all inextricably linked in Magwitch's revenge.... | |
 | Jerome Meckier - 2002 - 324 pàgines
...prospering ex-convict as a former criminal who got lucky, Magwitch, feeling superior, can gloat: "If I ain'ta gentleman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm the owner of such"; "I'm making a better gentleman nor ever you'll be!" (GE, 318-19) Magwitch's rationale for self-improvement... | |
 | Peter Knight, Jonathan Long - 2004 - 233 pàgines
...be above work. What odds, dear boy? Do I tell it fur you to feel a obligation? Not a bit. . . . If I ain'ta gentleman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm...land; which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman? ... I've come to the old country fur to see my gentleman spend his money like a gentleman. That'll... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2006 - 490 pàgines
...ago, and is a ignorant common fellow now, for all he's lucky,' what do I say? I says to myself, 'If I ain'ta gentleman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm...brought-up London gentleman?' This way I kep myself a-going. And this way I held steady afore my mind that I would for certain come one day and see my... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1925 - 92 pàgines
...ever I spec'lated and got rich, you should get rich. I worked hard, that you should be above work. This way I kep myself a going. And this way I held...boy, and make myself known to him, on his own ground. (Lays his hand on PIP's shoulder.) It warn't easy, Pip, for me to leave them parts, nor yet it warn't... | |
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