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... CLEV . Suppose the sky should fall we should catch larks - those that were quick enough , at least . Make another will indeed ! Why the old man was nearly at his last gasp when I came away . DOUBT . Why did you leave him ? Better have.
... CLEV . Suppose the sky should fall we should catch larks - those that were quick enough , at least . Make another will indeed ! Why the old man was nearly at his last gasp when I came away . DOUBT . Why did you leave him ? Better have.
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Ellen Pickering. DOUBT . Why did you leave him ? Better have stayed : I have known many fortunes lost by the should - be - heirs going away . CLEV . I left him at his own desire , and there is the beauty of it . My mother - clever old ...
Ellen Pickering. DOUBT . Why did you leave him ? Better have stayed : I have known many fortunes lost by the should - be - heirs going away . CLEV . I left him at his own desire , and there is the beauty of it . My mother - clever old ...
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... better to have our positions clearly defined . I shall always remember you with kindness , Mary ; but , of course , with ten thousand a year , I may command a bride with rank and wealth , and you have neither unluckily . MARY . Or ...
... better to have our positions clearly defined . I shall always remember you with kindness , Mary ; but , of course , with ten thousand a year , I may command a bride with rank and wealth , and you have neither unluckily . MARY . Or ...
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... a blanket , when they can catch you , for abu- sing their own peculiar bird . UNCLE . Better toss a pancake , that may save them from starving , the which is , or ought to be C the fate of such useless creatures as lovers and poets.
... a blanket , when they can catch you , for abu- sing their own peculiar bird . UNCLE . Better toss a pancake , that may save them from starving , the which is , or ought to be C the fate of such useless creatures as lovers and poets.
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... " Like a spaniel and a walnut - tree , A woman , The more you beat them , the better they'll be . " NIECE . Fie , uncle , to use such horrid musty old proverbs . The new saying is UNCLE . I hate new sayings and new ways What 18 THE UNCLE .
... " Like a spaniel and a walnut - tree , A woman , The more you beat them , the better they'll be . " NIECE . Fie , uncle , to use such horrid musty old proverbs . The new saying is UNCLE . I hate new sayings and new ways What 18 THE UNCLE .
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alias Jones Aloud bailiffs Barton's farm beggar better BOND bride brother Captain Cleverly CLEV commissioners cousin dare say Dobson Doleful DOUBT DOWLAN Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FRANK Franklyn Garbett give going gone Gossip hand handsome HART hate hear heard heart heiress hurry impostor Jack Smith Jeremiah Brown Lady Lady Juliana look lovers marry MARY mind MISS CLEAVE MISS GREY MISS JOHN never NIECE Norfolk Island Pepper pettishly PLAC Placid POLICE Policeman Pooh Poor Bessy Poor dear Jemima post octavo Prattle proverb rich Ruffle Sandford Selby Seymour de Hauteville shame SILENT SIR FRED Sir Frederick Jones Sir Michael Mowbray Smith STRAN suppose sure swell mob talk tell thing thought Tilson told Tom Smiths tongue TRENCH trust UNCLE vile vulgar wealth wedding won't wait word worse Worthy WYVILL young
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Page 18 - I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
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