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Oddsfish!

CHAPTER I
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It was enclosed in railings, and a sun-dial stood in the centre; and on the south was the space for the market, with a cobbled pavement.

To the east of St.Paul's Church stood the greater houses, built on arcades, where many fashionable people of the Court lived or had their lodgings, and it was in one of these that I too was to lodge: for I had bidden my Cousin Jermyn to do the best he could for me, and his letter had reached me at Dover, telling me to what place I was to come.
As I sat on my horse, waiting while my man went in to one of the doorways to inquire, a gentleman ran suddenly out of another, with no hat on his head.
"Why, you are my Cousin Roger, are you not ?" he cried from the steps.
"Then you are my Cousin Tom Jermyn," I said.
"The very man!" he cried back; and ran down to hold my stirrup.
All the way up the stairs he was talking and I was observing him.

He seemed a hearty kind of fellow enough, with a sunburnt face from living in the country; and he wore his own hair.

He was still in riding-dress; and he told me, before we had reached the first landing, that he was come but an hour ago from his house at Hare Street, in Hertfordshire.
"And I have brought little Dorothy with me," he cried.

"You remember little Dorothy?
She is a lady of quality now, aged no less than sixteen; and is come up to renew her fal-lals for her cousin's arrival; for you must come down with us to Hare Street when your business is done." I cannot say that even after all this heartiness, I thought very much of my Cousin Tom.


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