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A Hungarian Nabob

PREFACE
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Come, come, my good old boy, don't be waxy.

I can wait, you know.

I am quite a juvenile." And with that he stretched himself at full length across three chairs, and began to whistle a fragment of some vaudeville ditty that occurred to his mind.
The heydukes, packing up the things, would have pulled the chairs from under him, but the old man cried-- "Leave everything where it is; I'll touch nothing that that fellow has had aught to do with.

Landlord! Where is the man?
Everything in this room is his!" The last words were spoken in so hoarse a voice as to be scarcely intelligible.

The jester took his master's hand to prevent him from falling, while the poet led the way.
"You see, it is of no use kicking up a row," said Abellino, with ironical sympathy.


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