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The Mississippi Bubble

CHAPTER V
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And I am a judge of men." Law looked at him carelessly.
"You shall make me none the easier, nor yourself the easier, by soft speech," said he, "if you have not these garments ready by the time appointed.

Send them, and you shall have back the fifty sovereigns by the messenger, with perhaps a coin or so in addition if all be well." "The air of this nobility!" said the tailor, but smiling with pleasure none the less.

"This is, perhaps, some affair with a lady ?" he added.
"'Tis an affair with a lady, and also with certain gentlemen." "Oh, so," said the tailor.

"If it he, forsooth, an enterprise with a lady, methinks I know the outcome now." He gazed with professional pride upon the symmetrical figure before him.

"You shall be all the better armed when well fitted in my garments.


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