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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

CHAPTER III--_The Hill of Humour_
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And for twopence I'd do it." "Do it, then," said Lambert, swinging his stick impatiently.

"It would be funnier than the bosh you and Barker talk." Quin, standing on the top of the hill, stretched his hand out towards the main avenue of Kensington Gardens.
"Two hundred yards away," he said, "are all your fashionable acquaintances with nothing on earth to do but to stare at each other and at us.

We are standing upon an elevation under the open sky, a peak as it were of fantasy, a Sinai of humour.

We are in a great pulpit or platform, lit up with sunlight, and half London can see us.
Be careful how you suggest things to me.

For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man." "I don't know what you are talking about," said Lambert, contemptuously.


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