[The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom<br> Complete by Tobias Smollett]@TWC D-Link book
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
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Yet you'll take it upon you to call your betters children.

Marry come up, Mr.Goosecap, I have got children that are as good men as you, or any hypocritical trembler in England." A person who sat opposite to the quaker, hearing this remonstrance, which seemed pregnant with contention, interposed in the conversation with a conscious leer, and begged there might be no rupture between the spirit and the flesh.

By this remonstrance he relieved Obadiah from the satire of this female orator, and brought the whole vengeance of her elocution upon his own head.

"Flesh!" cried she, with all the ferocity of an enraged Thalestris; "none of your names, Mr.Yellowchaps.

What! I warrant you have an antipathy to flesh, because you yourself are nothing but skin and bone.


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