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The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield

CHAPTER IX
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Ha! ha! ha! Sable, thou'rt a very impudent fellow.

Half a crown a day to attend my decease, and dost thou reckon it to me ?" "SABLE....

I have a book at home, which I call my doomsday-book, where I have every man of quality's age and distemper in town, and know when you should drop.

Nay, my lord, if you had reflected upon your mortality half so much as poor I have for you, you would not desire to return to life thus--in short, I cannot keep this a secret, under the whole money I am to have for burying you." * * * * * Of course Lady Brumpton is discomfited and disgraced at the end of the play, and, of course, Lord Brumpton is reconciled to his son--for Steele took care that virtue should be rewarded and the moral code otherwise preserved.

As to her ladyship, who has proved a very entertaining sort of villain, we shall take leave of her in one of the best scenes of the comedy: "WIDOW.


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