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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XX
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Why, sir ?--because I trusted the Emperor of Russia and the Prince Regent.

Look here.

Look at my papers.

Look what the funds were on the 1st of March--what the French fives were when I bought for the count.

And what they're at now.
There was collusion, sir, or that villain never would have escaped.
Where was the English Commissioner who allowed him to get away?
He ought to be shot, sir--brought to a court-martial, and shot, by Jove." "We're going to hunt Boney out, sir," Dobbin said, rather alarmed at the fury of the old man, the veins of whose forehead began to swell, and who sate drumming his papers with his clenched fist.


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