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Springhaven

CHAPTER VI
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Heroes of the Nile, indeed, and bucklers of the country! Why, he could not buckle his own shoe, and Jenny Shanks had to do it for him.
Not that I blame him for having one arm, and a brave man he is to have lost it, but that he might have said something about the things I got up at a quarter to five every morning to make up for him.

For cook is no more than a smoke-jack, Mr.Swipes; if she keeps the joint turning, that's as much as she can do." "And a little too fond of good beer, I'm afeard," replied Mr.Swipes, having emptied his pot.

"Men's heads was made for it, but not women's, till they come to superior stations in life.

But, oh, Mrs.Cloam, what a life we lead with the crotchets of they gentry!" "It isn't that so much, Mr.Swipes, if only there was any way of giving satisfaction.

I wish everybody who is born to it to have the very best of everything, likewise all who have fought up to it.


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