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The History of Pendennis

CHAPTER XII
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"All them children write verses and nonsense." "He's been acting the part of a viper to this fireside, and a traitor in this familee," cried the Captain.

"I tell ye he's no better than an impostor." "What has the poor fellow done, Papa ?" asked Emily.
"Done?
He has deceived us in the most athrocious manner," Miss Emily's papa said.

"He has thrifled with your affections, and outraged my own fine feelings.

He has represented himself as a man of property, and it turruns out that he is no betther than a beggar.

Haven't I often told ye he had two thousand a year?
He's a pauper, I tell ye, Miss Costigan; a depindent upon the bountee of his mother; a good woman, who may marry again, who's likely to live for ever, and who has but five hundred a year.


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