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Burlesques

CHAPTER IX
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Did you not make over your house, your furniture, your emporium of perfumery, and nine-and-twenty shaving customers, to me?
Are these trifles?
Is Jemimarann a trifle?
if she would allow me to call her so.

Oh, Jemimarann, your Pa found me in the workhouse, and made me what I am.

Conduct me to my grave, and I never, never shall be different!" When he had said this, Orlando was so much affected, that he rushed suddenly on his hat and quitted the room.
Then Jemimarann began to cry too.

"Oh, Pa!" said she, "isn't he--isn't he a nice young man ?" "I'm HANGED if he ain't," says Tug.

"What do you think of his giving me eighteenpence yesterday, and a bottle of lavender-water for Mimarann ?" "He might as well offer to give you back the shop at any rate," says Jemmy.
"What! to pay Tuggeridge's damages?
My dear, I'd sooner die than give Tuggeridge the chance." FAMILY BUSTLE.
Tuggeridge vowed that I should finish my days there, when he put me in prison.


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