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The Way We Live Now

CHAPTER XIII - THE LONGESTAFFES
19/27

Now for a row.' Then Mr Longestaffe entered the room.
'My dear,' said Lady Pomona, 'here's Adolphus come to see us.' The father nodded his head at his son but said nothing.

'We want him to stay and dine, but he's engaged.' 'Though he doesn't know where,' said Sophia.
'My fellow knows;--he keeps a book.

I've got a letter, sir, ever so long, from those fellows in Lincoln's Inn.

They want me to come and see you about selling something; so I've come.

It's an awful bore, because I don't understand anything about it.


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