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The Mississippi Bubble

CHAPTER IV
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Thus I foresee that this little feat which you mention is sure to be mine this very night.

You all say that _trente_ has not come up for many months.

Well, 'tis due, and due to-night.

The cards never fail me when I need." "By my faith," cried Wilson, "ye have a pretty way about you up in Scotland!" John Law saw the veiled ill feeling, and replied at once: "True, we have a pretty way.

We had it at Killiecrankie not so long ago; and when the clans fight among themselves, we need still prettier ways." "Now, gentlemen," said Pembroke, "none of this talk, by your leave.


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