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The Attache

CHAPTER XI
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Trap shale Greywachy; a petrified snail, the most important discovery of modern times.

Bank governor's machine weighs sovereigns, light ones go to the right, and heavy ones to the left.
"'Stop,' says I, 'if you mean the sovereign people here, there are none on 'em light.

Right and left is both monstrous heavy; all over weight, every one on 'em.

I'm squeezed to death.' "'Very good, Mr.Slick.Let me introduce you to -- --,' they are whipt off in the current, and I don't see 'em again no more.

'A beautiful shew of flowers, Madam, at the garden: they are all in full blow now.


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