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Peg Woffington

CHAPTER XI
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"My things are not come," said she.

"And, Lady Betty, I had so much to tell him, and to be sent away;" and the deep blue eyes began to fill.
Now Mrs.Woffington was determined that this lady, who she saw was simple, should disgust her husband by talking twaddle before a band of satirists.

So she said warmly: "It is not fair on us.

Pray, madam, your budget of country news.

Clouted cream so seldom comes to London quite fresh." "There, you see, Ernest," said the unsuspicious soul.


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