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A Flat Iron for a Farthing

CHAPTER XXIII
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He cooked unparalleled dishes for us, and read poetry aloud to me with an exquisite justness and delicacy of taste that I have never heard surpassed.
His praise was nectar to me.

When he said, "I tell you what, Regie, you've an uncommon lot of general information, I can tell you," my head was quite turned.

Whatever he did seemed right to me.

When I first came to school, my hat was duly peppered and pickled by the boys and replaced by me with one of unexceptionable shape.

My shirts then gave offence to my new master.
"I suppose," he said, surveying me deliberately, "a good many of your things are made by Mrs.Baggage ?" "Nurse Bundle makes my shirts, Damer," said I.
"It's all the same," said Damer.


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