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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XVII
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But business is my motto, in the fewest words that may be.

You know what I want; you will keep it to yourself, otherwise other people might demand the money.
Through very simple channels you will find out whether the fellow thing to this can be found here or elsewhere; and if so, who has got it, and how it was come by, and everything else that can be learned about it; and when you know all, you just make a mark on this piece of paper, ready folded and addressed; and then you will seal it, and give it to the man who calls for the letters nearly twice a week.

And when I get that, I come and eat another duck, and have oysters with my cod-fish, which to-day we could not have, except in the form of mussels, ma'am." "Naw, not a moosel--they was aw gude flithers." "Well, ma'am, they may have been unknown animals; but good they were, and as fresh as the day.

Now, you will remember that my desire is to do good.

I have nothing to do with the revenue, nor the magistrates, nor his Majesty.


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