Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas William Jerrold
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you'll not make me cry now. No, no; I don't throw away my tears upon
any such person now. "What? "DON'T? "Ha! that's your ingratitude! But none of you men deserve that any woman should love you. My poor heart! "Everybody else can go out of town except us. Ha! If I'd only married Simmons--What? "WHY DIDN'T I? "Yes, that's all the thanks I get. "WHO'S SIMMONS? "Oh, you know very well who Simmons is. He'd have treated me a little better, I think. He WAS a gentleman. "YOU CAN'T TELL? "May be not: but I can. With such weather as this, to stay melting in London; and when the painters are coming in! "YOU WON'T HAVE THE PAINTERS IN? "But you must; and if they once come in, I'm determined that none of |
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