tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8038633427736743349..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The duel in Nicholas NicklebyAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-76035945144104342572007-12-04T20:25:00.000-06:002007-12-04T20:25:00.000-06:00Hey, yeah, Tom Jones. That's the one I couldn't re...Hey, yeah, Tom Jones. That's the one I couldn't remember.<BR/><BR/>Or I think that's the one I couldn't remember.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-43132974794539063452007-12-04T13:42:00.000-06:002007-12-04T13:42:00.000-06:00Tom Jones?Tom Jones?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-19291391666841387612007-12-04T09:22:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:22:00.000-06:00Great example - classic Austen comedy.The English ...Great example - classic Austen comedy.<BR/><BR/>The English treatment is really different. Sir Charles Grandison actually declines to duel, risking his honor, because he is a man of high character. Then there's another duel that doesn't quite happen in The Pickwick Papers.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71028156678915244192007-12-03T15:12:00.000-06:002007-12-03T15:12:00.000-06:00How about a duel that never was?"And now here's Mr...How about a duel that never was?<BR/><BR/>"And now here's Mr. Bennet gone away, and I know he will fight Wickham, wherever he meets him and then he will be killed, and what is to become of us all?"<BR/><BR/>"And, above all, keep Mr. Bennet from fighting. Tell him what a dreadful state I am in, that I am frighted out of my wits--and have such tremblings, such flutterings, all over me--such spasms in my side and pains in my head, and such beatings at heart, that I can get no rest by night nor by day. And tell my dear Lydia not to give any directions about her clothes till she has seen me, for she does not know which are the best warehouses."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com