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Austin and His Friends

CHAPTER the Third
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It's just like Aunt Charlotte to be so fond of all those hideous people.

You hate the MacTavishes, don't you, Lubin?
_Do_ hate the MacTavishes! Fancy--nine of them, no less, counting the old ones, and all of them coming together.

What a family! I despise people who breed like rabbits, as though they thought they were so superlative that the rest of the world could never have enough of them." "Ay, fools grow without watering," assented Lubin.

"Can't say I ever took to 'em myself--though it's not my place to say so.

The young gents make a bit too free with one, and when they opens their mouths no one else may so much as sneeze.


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