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The Contrast by Royall Tyler
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what will now be received with rapture will then be
attributed to duty.


JONATHAN

Well, and what was the consequence?


JESSAMY

The consequence!--Ah! forgive me, my dear friend,
but you New England gentlemen have such a laud-
able curiosity of seeing the bottom of everything;--
why, to be honest, I confess I saw the blooming
cherub of a consequence smiling in its angelic mother's
arms, about ten months afterwards.


JONATHAN

Well, if I follow all your plans, make them six bows,
and all that, shall I have such little cherubim conse-
quences?


JESSAMY

Undoubtedly.--What are you musing upon?

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