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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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And I have my own honor to consult, even before their benefit: they will forgive me, I hope and feel, before long.
"'As for yourself, may I not hope that time will calm your exquisite feelings too?
I leave Mary Ann behind me to console you.

She admires you as you deserve to be admired, and with a constancy which I entreat you to try and imitate.

Do, my dear Mr.Plush, try--for the sake of your sincere friend and admirer, A.
"'P.S.

I leave the wedding-dresses behind for her: the diamonds are beautiful, and will become Mrs.Plush admirably.' "This was hall!--Confewshn! And there stood the footmen sniggerin, and that hojus Mary Hann half a cryin, half a laffing at me! 'Who has she gone hoff with ?' rors I; and Mary Hann (smiling with one hi) just touched the top of one of the Johns' canes who was goin out with the noats to put hoff the brekfst.

It was Silvertop then! "I bust out of the house in a stayt of diamoniacal igsitement! "The stoary of that ilorpmint I have no art to tell.


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