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The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4

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Did not Clementina Falconbridge, the romantic Clementina Falconbridge, fancy Tommy Potts?
and Rosabella Sweetlips sacrifice her mellifluous appellative to Jack Deady?
Matilda her cousin married a Gubbins, and her sister Amelia a Clutterbuck.
_Mr.H._ Potts is tolerable, Deady is sufferable, Gubbins is bearable, and Clutterbuck is endurable, but Ho---- _Belvil._ Hush, Jack, don't betray yourself.

But you are really ashamed of the family-name?
_Mr.H._ Ay, and of my father that begot me, and my father's father, and all their forefathers that have borne it since the Conquest.
_Belvil_.

But how do you know the women are so squeamish?
_Mr.H_.I have tried them.

I tell you there is neither maiden of sixteen nor widow of sixty but would turn up their noses at it.

I have been refused by nineteen virgins, twenty-nine relicts, and two old maids.
_Belvil_.


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