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Two Years Ago, Volume II.

CHAPTER XV
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But what ever since that night ?" "Why, I suppose you come over the poor thing somehow, as you seem minded to do over every one as you can.

But she's been running up and down the town ever since, preaching to 'em about windilation, and drains, and smells, and cholera, and its being a judgment of the Lord against dirt, till she's frightened all the women so, that many's the man as has had to forbid her his house .-- But you know that as well as I." "I never heard a word of it before: but now I have, I'll give you my opinion on it.

That she is a noble, sensible girl, and that you are all a set of fools who are not worthy of her; and that the greatest fool of the whole is you, Mr.Tardrew.And when the cholera comes, it will serve you exactly right if you are the first man carried off by it.

Now, sir, you have given me your mind, and I have given you mine, and I do not wish to hear anything more of you.

Good morning!" "You hold your head mighty high, to be sure, since you've had the run of his lordship's yacht." "If you are impertinent, sir, you will repent it.


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