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The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield

CHAPTER IX
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Oh, I have seen her.

Well, I heartily pity some people for their wealth; they might have been unknown else--you would die, madam, to see her and her equipage: I thought her horses were ashamed of their finery; they dragged on, as if they were all at plough, and a great bashful-look'd booby behind grasp'd the coach, as if he had never held one.
"FIFTH LADY.

Alas! some people think there is nothing but being fine to be genteel; but the high prance of the horses, and the brisk insolence of the servants in an equipage of quality are inimitable.
"FIRST LADY.

Now you talk of an equipage, I envy this lady the beauty she will appear in a mourning coach, it will so become her complexion; I confess I myself mourned for two years for no other reason.

Take up that hood there.


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