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The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)

CHAPTER XV
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_Lady_ .-- Nay, if he was gotten into the South Sea, that might hurt him indeed, as it has done many a gentleman of better estates than he.
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_Lady_ .-- I don't know whether it was the South Sea, or some other bubbles, but he was very near making a bubble of her, and L3000 into the bargain.
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_Lady_ .-- I am glad she has escaped him, if it be so; it is a sign her friends took a great deal of care of her.
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_Lady_ .-- He won't hold it long; he will have his desert, I hope; I don't doubt but we shall see him in the Gazette quickly for a bankrupt.
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_Lady_ .-- If he does not draw in some innocent young thing that has her fortune in her own hands to patch him up.
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