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of the head and turban. ‘I asked her if she thought that it
was in 1836, according to Mr. Jowls, or in 1839, according to
Mr. Wapshot, that the Pope was to fall: and she said—‘Poor
Pope! I hope not—What has he done?’’
‘She is my brother’s widow, my dear friends,’ Mrs. Fred-
erick replied, ‘and as such I think we’re all bound to give her
every attention and instruction on entering into the world.
You may fancy there can be no MERCENARY motives in
those whose DISAPPOINTMENTS are well known.’
‘That poor dear Mrs. Bullock,’ said Rowdy to Hollyock,
as they drove away together—‘she is always scheming and
managing. She wants Mrs. Osborne’s account to be taken
from our house to hers—and the way in which she coaxes
that boy and makes him sit by that blear-eyed little Rosa is
perfectly ridiculous.’
‘I wish Glowry was choked with her Man of Sin and her
Battle of Armageddon,’ cried the other, and the carriage
rolled away over Putney Bridge.
But this sort of society was too cruelly genteel for Emmy,
and all jumped for joy when a foreign tour was proposed.

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