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The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
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Her cabin is the least cleanly in the whole prison; she has learned to eat bread and cheese and drink porter; but she always appears once a day dressed in the pink of the fashion.

She has found means to run in debt at the chandler's shop, the baker's, and the tap-house, though there is nothing got in this place but with ready money.

She has even borrowed small sums from divers prisoners, who were themselves on the brink of starving.

She takes pleasure in being surrounded with duns, observing, that by such people a person of fashion is to be distinguished.

She writes circular letters to her former friends and acquaintance, and by this method has raised pretty considerable contributions; for she writes in a most elegant and irresistible style.


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