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Clementina

CHAPTER XII
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Between you and me, Jenny, he is a beggarly fellow!" "He has already paid me half," cried Jenny.

It was no knowledge to Wogan, who, however, counterfeited a deal of surprise.
"Well," said he, "he has only done it to cheat you the more easily of the other fifty.

We will go straight back and tell him that it costs three hundred guineas, money down, and the best gown in Paris to turn a fine figure of a girl into a dwarf-bear." He leaned down and took Jenny by the arm.

She sprang to her feet and twisted herself free.
"No," she said, "you can go back if you will and show him what a good friend you are to him.

But I go on.


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