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The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield

CHAPTER III
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Death! 'tis that I gave her, and the only present she ever would receive from me.

[_Aside to_ SIR CHARLES.] Ask him how he came by it?
"SIR CHARLES.

Pr'ythee don't be uneasy.

Did she give it to you, my lord?
"FOP.

Faith, Charles, I can't say she did or she did not, but we were playing the fool, and I took it--_a la_--pshah--I can't tell thee in French, neither, but Horace touches it to a nicety--'twas _Pignas direptum male pertinaci_.


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