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The Westcotes

CHAPTER II
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The company on Wednesday will be less familiar with them: they will serve as mementoes, and the prices, I daresay, will not be too closely considered." "Sir, I beg of you--" General Rochambeau expostulated.
"Eh ?" "They have given their labour--such as it is--in pure gratitude for the kindness shown to them by all in Axcester.

That has been the whole meaning of our small enterprise," the old gentleman persisted.
"Still, I don't suppose they'll object if it brings a little beef to their _ragouts_.

Say no more, say no more.

What have we here?
Eh?
'Bacchus and Ariadne'?
I am rusty in my classics, but Bacchus, Dorothea! This will please Narcissus.

We have in our house, sir,"-- here he addressed Raoul,--"a Roman pavement entirely--ah--concerned with that personage.


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