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The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield

CHAPTER IX
19/34

What's the second?
Tautology.

What's the third?
Tautology; as an old pleader said of action." * * * * * Who shall say that the tautological sentiments of Mr.Puzzle are not still inculcated?
Nay, the whole play furnishes a capital instance of the truism that the world changes but little, and, furthermore, that the mould of nigh two centuries cannot spoil the wit of sparkling Steele.

Ah, Dick! Dick! you may have been a sorry dog, with your toasts and your taverns, yet 'tis a thousand pities that a few dramatists of to-day cannot drink inspiration from the same cups.
To continue our cheerful journey with this unusual "Funeral," we soon find ourselves introduced to Lord Hardy, the unjustly discarded son of Brumpton.

Hardy is a high-spirited, honest man of quality, a trifle out at elbows just now, owing to the stoppage of financial supplies from the paternal mansion.

His straits are oft severe, and it is fortunate that he has in Trim a faithful servant who knows so well how to keep the duns at bay.


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