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I took her and tried to cumft her: I pinted out the diffrents of our sitawashns; igsplained to her that proppaty has its jewties as well as its previletches, and that MY juty clearly was to marry into a noble famly.
I kep on talking to her (she sobbing and going hon hall the time) till Lady Hangelina herself came up--'The real Siming Pewer,' as they say in the play. "There they stood together--them two young women.
I don't know which is the ansamest.
I coodn help comparing them; and I coodnt help comparing myself to a certing Hannimle I've read of, that found it difficklt to make a choice betwigst 2 Bundles of A." "That ungrateful beest Fitzwarren--my oan man--a feller I've maid a fortune for--a feller I give 100 lb.
per hannum to!--a low bred Wallydyshamber! HE must be thinking of falling in love too! and treating me to his imperence. "He's a great big athlatic feller--six foot i, with a pair of black whiskers like air-brushes--with a look of a Colonel in the harmy--a dangerous pawmpus-spoken raskle I warrunt you.
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