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Burlesques

CHAPTER I
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The young man was killed very soon after, and left his child with its mother.

The black Prince forgave his daughter and bequeathed to her a handsome sum of money.

I suppose that it was on this account that Jowler married Mrs.J., a creature who had not, I do believe, a Christian name, or a single Christian quality: she was a hideous, bloated, yellow creature, with a beard, black teeth, and red eyes: she was fat, lying, ugly, and stingy--she hated and was hated by all the world, and by her jolly husband as devoutly as by any other.

She did not pass a month in the year with him, but spent most of her time with her native friends.

I wonder how she could have given birth to so lovely a creature as her daughter.


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