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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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I have destroyed a man noxious to the world! with the wealth by which he afflicted society, I have been the means of blessing many." CODLINGSBY.
BY D.SHREWSBERRY, ESQ.
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"The whole world is bound by one chain.

In every city in the globe there is one quarter that certain travellers know and recognize from its likeness to its brother district in all other places where are congregated the habitations of men.

In Tehran, or Pekin, or Stamboul, or New York, or Timbuctoo, or London, there is a certain district where a certain man is not a stranger.


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