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The Attache

CHAPTER X
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I've set my heart on it.

It's within your reach, if you are good for anything.

Let me see the great seal--let me handle it before I die--do, that's a dear; if not, go back to your Colony pond, and sing with your provincial frogs, and I hope to Heaven the fust long-legged bittern that comes there will make a supper of you." "Then sais you to the young parson, 'Arthur,' sais you 'Natur jist made you for a clergyman.

Now, do you jist make yourself 'Archbishop of Canterbury.' My death-bed scene will be an awful one, if I don't see you 'the Primate'; for my affections, my hopes, my heart, is fixed on it.
I shall be willin' to die then, I shall depart in peace, and leave this world happy.

And, Arthur,' sais you, 'they talk and brag here till one is sick of the sound a'most about "Addison's death-bed." Good people refer to it as an example, authors as a theatrical scene and hypocrites as a grand illustration for them to turn up the whites of their cold cantin' eyes at.


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