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The Emigrants Of Ahadarra

CHAPTER VIII
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They have gone over the whole statute-book several times, and I believe are absolutely of opinion that the Parliament is doing nothing.

The most lynx-eyed investigator of old enactments could not find one which has escaped them, for the villains are perfectly black letter in that respect; and what is in proper keeping wid this, whenever they hear of a new Act of Parliament they cannot rest either night or day until they break it.

And now for the inference: be on your guard against this pandemonial squad.

Whatever your object may be in cultivating and keeping society wid them, theirs is to ruin you--fleece was the word used--an I then to cut and run, leaving Mr.Hycy--the acute, the penetrating, the accomplished--completely in the lurch.

Be influenced, then, by the amicitial admonitions of the inditer of this correspondence.


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