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A House-Boat on the Styx

CHAPTER III: WASHINGTON GIVES A DINNER
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"I wasn't there." Boswell nodded approvingly, chuckled slightly, and put the Doctor's remark down for publication in _The Gossip_.
"You're doubtless right, there," retorted Diogenes.

"What you don't know would fill a circulating library.

Well--I lived in a tub.

Now, if I believed in envy, I suppose you think I'd be envious of people who live in brownstone fronts with back yards and mortgages, eh ?" "I'd rather live under a mortgage than in a tub," said Bonaparte, contemptuously.
"I know you would," said Diogenes.

"Mortgages never bothered you--but I wouldn't.


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