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The History of Pendennis

CHAPTER V
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His name was Harrington; that is, his real name was Potts; fawther a clergyman, very respectable.

Harrington was in London, and got in debt.

Ye remember; he came out in Falkland, to Mrs.
Bunce's Julia." "And a pretty Julia she was," the Captain interposed; "a woman of fifty, and a mother of ten children.

'Tis you ought to have been Julia, or my name's not Jack Costigan." "I didn't take the leading business then," Miss Fotheringay said modestly; "I wasn't fit for't till Bows taught me." "True for you, my dear," said the Captain: and bending to Pendennis, he added, "Rejuiced in circumstances, sir, I was for some time a fencing-master in Dublin (there's only three men in the empire could touch me with the foil once, but Jack Costigan's getting old and stiff now, sir), and my daughter had an engagement at the thayater there; and 'twas there that my friend, Mr.Bows, who saw her capabilities, and is an uncommon 'cute man, gave her lessons in the dramatic art, and made her what ye see.

What have ye done since Bows went, Emily ?" "Sure, I've made a pie," Emily said, with perfect simplicity.


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