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New Burlesques

BOOK II
3/13

But that's nothing, everybody else is so affable and polite in London.

Gentlemen--"real toffs," they call 'em--whom you don't know from Adam--think nothing of speaking to you in the street.

Why, Nurse Jinny says--but there another patient's going off who by rights oughter have died only to-morrow.

"To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow," as that barn-stormer actor said.

But they're always calling for that giddy young thing.
Your GOLLY.
Meantime, John Gale, having abruptly left Golly at the door of St.
Barabbas' hospital, tactfully avoiding an unseemly altercation with the cab-driver regarding her exact fare, pursued his way thoughtfully to the residence of his uncle, the First Lord of the Admiralty.


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