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The Mississippi Bubble

CHAPTER V
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Now it appears to me you are like everybody else.

You prate only of hardships and of impossibilities." The perspiration fairly stood out on the forehead of the man of trade.
"Sir," said he, "I should be glad to please not only a friend of Sir Arthur Pembroke, but also a gentleman of such parts as yourself.

I hesitate to promise--" "But you must promise," said John Law.
"Well, then, I do promise! I will have this apparel at your place on the day which you name.

'Tis most extraordinary, but the order shall be executed." "As I thought," said John Law.
"But I must thank you besides," resumed the tradesman.

"In good truth I must say that of all the young gentlemen who come hither--and I may show the names of the best nobility of London and of some ports beyond seas--there hath never stepped within these doors a better figure than yourself--nay, not so good.


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