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Hills of the Shatemuc

CHAPTER XIV
13/17

-- This is but your _first_ degree, Governor; -- your initial step towards great things; and you are not one to lag by the way.
"As for me, I am off to the regions of wildness, to see what I can do with the rocks and the hills of rude Nature -- or what they will do with me, which is perhaps nearer the truth.

Not very inviting, after this gay and brilliant city, where certainly the society is very bewitching.

I have happened to see a good deal, and some of the best of it.

Mr.Haye has been very attentive to me, and I believe would really like to renew his old offer.

He lives here _en prince_; with every thing to make his house attractive _besides_ the two little princesses who tenant it; and who make it I think the pleasantest house in Mannahatta.


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