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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 32
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She supposed you to be rich, or at least quite rich enough; and found you poor.

Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and so forth.

The lady being poor and you poor also, there is an end of the matter.

You cannot enter upon these considerations, and have no manner of business with the ceremony.

I drink her health in this glass, and respect and honour her for her extreme good sense.


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