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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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I was one of the greatest scrip-holders in Hengland; and calclated on a kilossle fortune.

All my shares was rising immence.

Every poast brot me noose that I was sevral thowsands richer than the day befor.

I was detummind not to reerlize till the proper time, and then to buy istates; to found a new family of Delapluches, and to alie myself with the aristoxy of my country.
"These pints I reprasented to pore Mary Hann hover and hover agin.

'If you'd been Lady Hangelina, my dear gal,' says I, 'I would have married you: and why don't I?
Because my dooty prewents me.


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