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Phansy Mr.or Sir Jeames and lady Hangelina de la Pluche! Ho! what will the old washywoman, my grandmother, say? She may sell her mangle then, and shall too by my honor as a Gent." "As for Squallop Hill, its not to be emadgind that I was going to give 5000 lb.
for a bleak mounting like that, unless I had some ideer in vew.
Ham I not a Director of the Grand Diddlesex? Don't Squallop lie amediately betwigst Old Bone House, Single Gloster, and Scrag End, through which cities our line passes? I will have 400,000 lb.
for that mounting, or my name is not Jeames.
I have arranged a little barging too for my friend the Erl.
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