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Phineas Redux

CHAPTER V
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But they like getting the counties, and the Garters, and the promotion in the army.

They like their brothers to be made bishops, and their sisters like the Wardrobe and the Bedchamber.

There isn't one of them that doesn't hang on somewhere,--or at least not many.

Do you remember Peel's bill for the Corn Laws ?" "There were fifty went against him then," said Bonteen.
"And what are fifty?
A man doesn't like to be one of fifty.

It's too many for glory, and not enough for strength.


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