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The Life of Froude

CHAPTER II
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I have still one great consolation here, and that is the rage and fury of the sqireens at the poor rates; six and sixpence in the pound with an estate mortgaged right up to high-water mark and the year's income anticipated is not the very most delightful prospect possible.
"The crows are very fat and very plenty.

They sit on the roadside and look at you with a kind of right of property.

There are no beggars--at least, professional ones.

They were all starved-dead, gone where at least I suppose the means of subsistence will be found for them.

There is no begging or starving, I believe, in the two divisions of Kingdom Come.


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