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A Simpleton

CHAPTER IV
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You passed me full in the Strand." "You are mistaken, sir," said Cartwright, with sullen irony.

"I've got a twin-brother; a many takes him for me, till they finds the difference." Then, lowering his voice, "What call had you to boast in your club you had made it right with Bill Cartwright, and he'd never see you?
That got about, and so I was bound to see you or lose my bread.

There's one or two I don't see, but then they are real gentlemen, and thinks of me as well as theirselves, and doesn't blab." "I must have been drunk," said Falcon apologetically.

"More likely blowing a cloud.

When you young gents gets a-smoking together, you'd tell on your own mothers.


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