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Clementina

CHAPTER VIII
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"To be sure, you are a great man, Charles.

The most probable convincing story that was ever invented! Oh! but you'll hear Jenny sob with pity for the heiress and Lucius O'Toole when she hears it.

It will be a bad day, too, for the merciless parents when they discover Jenny in her Highness's bed.

She stands six feet in her stockings." "Six feet!" exclaimed Wogan.
"In her stockings," returned O'Toole.

"Her height is her one vanity.
Therefore in her shoes she is six feet four." "Well, she must take her heels off and make herself as short as she can." "You will have trouble, my friend, to persuade her to that," said O'Toole.
"Hush!" said Gaydon.


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