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The Attache

CHAPTER III
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No, I do not know as I would.

We may use these things, but not abuse them.

Be temperate, be moderate, but it is a sorry heart that knows no pleasure.

Take your night-cap, Sam, and then commend yourself to His safe keeping, who rules the wind and the waves to Him who--" "Well then, minister, what a dreadful awful looking thing a night-cap is without a tassel, ain't it?
Oh! you must put a tassel on it, and that is another glass.

Well then, what is the use of a night-cap, if it has a tassel on it, but has no string, it will slip off your head the very first turn you take; and that is another glass you know.


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