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The Astonishing History of Troy Town

CHAPTER XV
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I say, me darlint, I'd be lettin' that young fool down aisier than the pote.

He's a poor little snob, but he's more like a man than Moggridge." "He's a bad ass, is Moggridge," assented the Honourable Frederic.
"Come, Nellie, we've a day's work before us, remember." A friend of mine, the son of steady-going Nihilist parents, and therefore an authority, assures me that the Honourable Frederic cannot have been a conspirator for the simple reason that he shaved his chin regularly.

Be this as it may, to-night he smiled mysteriously as he rose, and winked at his wife in a most plebeian way.

I regret to say that both smile and wink were returned.
[Illustration: Winked.

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