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Man and Wife

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH
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What is the consequence of this purely prosaic state of things?
Lawyers and settlements, of course!" "Come into the library, Sir Patrick; and I'll soon settle the settlements! A bit of paper, and a dip of ink.

'I hereby give every blessed farthing I have got in the world to my dear Blanche.' Sign that; stick a wafer on at the side; clap your finger on the wafer; 'I deliver this as my act and deed;' and there it is--done!" "Is it, really?
You are a born legislator.

You create and codify your own system all in a breath.

Moses-Justinian-Mahomet, give me your arm! There is one atom of sense in what you have just said.

'Come into the library'-- is a suggestion worth attending to.


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