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The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)

CHAPTER XV
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_Lady_ .-- It is all sunk again then, if it was so; I don't know.
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_Lady_ .-- Why did she entertain him so long, then?
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_Lady_ .-- Alas! Madam, how could she know, poor lady, till her friends inquired into things?
But when they came to look a little narrowly into it, they soon found reason to give her a caution, that he was not the man she took him for.
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_Lady_ .-- Well, it is very strange; I am sure he passed for another man among us.
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_Lady_ .-- It must be formerly, then, for they tell me his credit has been sunk these three or four years; he had need enough indeed to try for a greater fortune, he wants it enough.
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