[The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer<br> Complete by Charles James Lever]@TWC D-Link book
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
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CHAPTER XXXVI
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That would give her a very pretty tour for the remainder of the year, and show her the pyramids.

But, tell me fairly, am I a good Pole ?" "Rather short," said I, "and a little too fat, perhaps." "That comes from the dash of Tartar blood, nothing more; and my mother was a Fin," said he, "she'll never ask whether from Carlow or the Caucasus.

How I revel in the thought, that I may smoke in company without a breach of the unities.

But I must go: there is a gentleman with a quinsey in No.

9, that gives me a lesson in Polish this morning.
So good-by, and don't forget to be well enough to-night, for you must be present at my debut." O'Leary had scarcely gone, when my thoughts reverted to Emily Bingham.
I was not such a coxcomb as to fancy her in love with me; yet certainly there was something in the affair which looked not unlike it; and though, by such a circumstance, every embarrassment which pressed upon me had become infinitely greater, I could not dissemble from myself a sense of pleasure at the thought.


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