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The History of Pendennis

CHAPTER XV
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And as for the tree, why it is in a hollow of this very tree, where he used to put his tin-box of ground-bait, and other fishing commodities, that he afterwards--but we are advancing matters.

Suffice it to say, he wrote poems and relieved himself very much.

When a man's grief or passion is at this point, it may be loud, but it is not very severe.

When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow, besides borrow and to-morrow, his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks for.

So were Pen's.


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