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The Claverings

CHAPTER XXI
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"Not to think about it ever is the best thing in the world.

You will be made to think about it if there be necessity.

A friend of mine told, me he did not know whether he had a digestion.

My friend, I said, you are like the husbandmen; you do not know your own blessings.

A bit more steak, Mr.Clavering; see, it has come up hot, just to prove that you have the blessing." There was a pause in the conversation for a minute or two, during which Schmoff and Doodles were very busy giving the required proof; and the count was leaning back in his chair with a smile of conscious wisdom on his face, looking as though he were in deep consideration of the subject on which he had just spoken with so much eloquence.


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