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Doctor Claudius, A True Story

CHAPTER IX
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I only wanted to save her from any inconvenience.

I did not want Claudius to be hanging after her, if she did not want him.

She does.

There is an end of it." O glorious English Common Sense! What a fine thing you are when anybody gets you by the right end.
"You may be right," said Barker, with a superior air that meant "you are certainly wrong." "But would Claudius be able to give her the position in foreign society--" "Society be damned," said the Duke.

"Do you think the widow of Alexis cannot command society?
Besides, Claudius is a gentleman, and that is quite enough." "I suppose he is," said Mr.Barker, with an air of regret.
"Suppose?
There is no supposing about it.


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