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The Gilded Age
Part 5.

CHAPTER XLII
13/37

Have you nothing to say ?" "Miss Hawkins, I voted for that bill because when I came to examine into it--" "Ah yes.

When you came to examine into it.

Well, I only want you to examine into my bill.

Mr.Trollop, you would not sell your vote on that subsidy bill--which was perfectly right--but you accepted of some of the stock, with the understanding that it was to stand in your brother-in-law's name." "There is no pr--I mean, this is, utterly groundless, Miss Hawkins." But the gentleman seemed somewhat uneasy, nevertheless.
"Well, not entirely so, perhaps.

I and a person whom we will call Miss Blank (never mind the real name,) were in a closet at your elbow all the while." Mr.Trollop winced--then he said with dignity: "Miss Hawkins is it possible that you were capable of such a thing as that ?" "It was bad; I confess that.


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