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a novelish sound, precise characters but what ?

 
and a something of attraction in the prospect     ₁
a something of matters were growing too serious     ₂
for there was a novelish sound in the first name,
a something of Miss Owenson or Mrs. Opie, —
singularly discordant with the second: — and,
by a memoria-technical process, the impression remained.
But what was the name of the street ?
It was the first time Basil Annesley had visited that terra incognita.     ₃
I traced, or fancied I could trace in its tiny features
some vestige of the Brookes countenance —
a something of     ₄     with one little touch say
a something of — “notwithstanding the after cloud
which obscured” — the well remembered precise characters
she gazed at, every scrap     ₅
 

sources, the first four by Mrs. Gore, the last by an obscure Leslie Gore
(their respective details at the more’s)

  1. Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination (London, 1836)
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  2. Cecil: or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb : A Novel (London, 1841)
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  3. The Money-Lender (London, 1843)
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  4. Men of Capital. (London, 1846)
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  5. Leslie Gore, Annie Jennings : A Novel (London, 1870)
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