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" Ah!” said the grocer, “I thought I knew his features. He takes after his mother’s family; she was a Dodson. He’s a fine, straight youth; what’s he been brought up to?” “Oh! to turn up his nose at his father’s customers, and be a fine gentleman,–not much else, I think. "

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George Eliot quote : Ah!” said the grocer, “I thought I knew his features. He takes after his mother’s family; she was a Dodson. He’s a fine, straight youth; what’s he been brought up to?” “Oh! to turn up his nose at his father’s customers, and be a fine gentleman,–not much else, I think.