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CHAPTER XXIX
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MR.

ABEL NEWT, GRAND STREET.
As the world returned to town and the late autumnal festivities began, the handsome person and self-possessed style of Mr.Abel Newt became the fashion.

Invitations showered upon him.

Mrs.Dagon proclaimed every where that there had been nobody so fascinating since the days of the brilliant youth of Aaron Burr, whom she declared that she well remembered, and added, that if she could say it without blushing, or if any reputable woman ought to admit such things, she should confess that in her younger days she had received flowers and even notes from that fascinating man.
"I don't deny, my dears, that he was a naughty man.

But I can tell you one thing, all the naughty men are not in disgrace yet, though he is.
And, if you please, Miss Fanny, with all your virtuous sniffs, dear, and all your hugging of men in waltzing, darling, Colonel Burr was not sent to Coventry because he was naughty.


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