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The Gilded Age
Part 6.

CHAPTER, LI
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I wish they would start something fresh.

Come, now, let's cheer up; there's been as good fish in the sea as there are now.

It shall never be said that Beriah Sellers -- Come in ?" It was the telegraph boy.

The Colonel reached for the message and devoured its contents: "I said it! Never give up the ship! The trial's, postponed till February, and we'll save the child yet.

Bless my life, what lawyers they, have in New-York! Give them money to fight with; and the ghost of an excuse, and they: would manage to postpone anything in this world, unless it might be the millennium or something like that.


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