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Life’s Little Ironies

CHAPTER II
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A fortune--judged by sea; but judged by land--' However, she banished considerations of the money for the nonce.

Soon the boys came in, and next Sunday Shadrach returned thanks to God--this time by the more ordinary channel of the italics in the General Thanksgiving.

But a few days after, when the question of investing the money arose, he remarked that she did not seem so satisfied as he had hoped.
'Well you see, Shadrach,' she answered, '_we_ count by hundreds; _they_ count by thousands' (nodding towards the other side of the Street).

'They have set up a carriage and pair since you left.' 'O, have they ?' 'My dear Shadrach, you don't know how the world moves.

However, we'll do the best we can with it.


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