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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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He came to London to study for the lor.

His prospix was bright indead; and he lived in a secknd flore in Jerming Street, having a ginteal inkum of two hundred lbs.

per hannum.
"With this andsum enuity it may be supposed that Frederick wanted for nothink.

Nor did he.

He was a moral and well-educated young man, who took care of his close; pollisht his hone tea-party boots; cleaned his kidd-gloves with injer rubber; and, when not invited to dine out, took his meals reglar at the Hoxford and Cambridge Club--where (unless somebody treated him) he was never known to igseed his alf-pint of Marsally Wine.
"Merrits and vuttues such as his coodnt long pass unperseavd in the world.


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