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A Voyage of Consolation

CHAPTER II
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I don't intend to give a day less than six weeks to it.

I'm looking forward to the tranquilising effect of the antique some myself," he added, hedging.

"I find these new self-risers that we've undertaken to carry almost more than my temperament can stand.

They went up from an output of five hundred dollars to six hundred and fifty thousand, and back again inside seven days last month.
I'm looking forward to examining something that hasn't moved for a couple of thousand years with considerable pleasure." "Poppa," said I, ignoring the self-risers, "if you were as particular about the quality of your fiction as you are about the quality of your table-butter, you would know that the best heroines never have recourse to such measures now.

They are simply obsolete.


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