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Peg Woffington

CHAPTER XIII
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I loathe her, and I shall not forget that you took her part.

Only, if you are her friend, take my advice, don't you assist her.

I shall defeat her without that.

Let her fight _her_ battle, and _I_ mine.
"Ah, madam! she cannot fight; she is a dove." "You are a fool! What do you know about women?
You were with her five minutes, and she turned you inside out.

My life on it, while I have been fooling my time here, she is in the field, with all the arts of our sex, simplicity at the head of them." Triplet was making a futile endeavor to convert her to his view of her rival, when a knock suddenly came to his door.


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