Pendennis is one of the most affable young men I ever knew.

潘登尼斯是我认识的最平易近人的年轻人之一。

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Engineer Phillip Vann, who lives in Port Pendennis, close to the docks, said he did not think "risks should be taken with the public in general".

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"Pendennis" follows "Pen" through his West Country upbringing to his debt-bilking sojourn at "Oxbridge University" (Thackeray himself spent five unproductive terms at Cambridge), his life as a literary man about town in the London of the early 1840s, his writing of a best-selling novel called "Walter Lorraine, " and his eventual marriage to his milksop cousin Laura.

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