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The Newcomes

CHAPTER VIII
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Only command persons, and you may be pretty sure that a good number will obey.

How well your money will have been laid out, O gentle reader, who purchase this; and, taking the maxim to heart, follow it through life! You may be sure of success.

If your neighbour's foot obstructs you, stamp on it; and do you suppose he won't take it away?
The proofs of the correctness of the above remarks I show in various members of the Newcome family.

Here was a vulgar little woman, not clever nor pretty, especially; meeting Mr.Newcome casually, she ordered him to marry her, and he obeyed; as he obeyed her in everything else which she chose to order through life.

Meeting Colonel Newcome on the steps of her house, she orders him to come to her evening party; and though he has not been to an evening party for five-and-thirty years--though he has not been to bed the night before--though he has no mufti-coat except one sent him out by Messrs.


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