[The Disowned<br> Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link book
The Disowned
Complete

CHAPTER II
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'Gad, we'll show him that old ale's none the worse for keeping company with the moon's darlings.

Come, sit down, sit down.

Where's the cloth, ye ill-mannered loons, and the knives and platters?
Have we no holiday customs for strangers, think ye?
Mim, my cove, off to my caravan; bring out the knives, and all other rattletraps; and harkye, my cuffin, this small key opens the inner hole, where you will find two barrels; bring one of them.

I'll warrant it of the best, for the brewer himself drank some of the same sort but two hours before I nimm'd them.

Come, stump, my cull, make yourself wings.
Ho, Dame Bingo, is not that pot of thine seething yet?
Ah, my young gentleman, you commence betimes; so much the better; if love's a summer's day, we all know how early a summer morning begins," added the jovial Egyptian in a lower voice (feeling perhaps that he was only understood by himself), as he gazed complacently on the youth, who, with that happy facility of making himself everywhere at home so uncommon to his countrymen, was already paying compliments suited to their understanding to two fair daughters of the tribe who had entered with the new-comers.


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