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  ...me," cries Jack
"So it does Jack--you see--it actually refreshes Jack! I say, Jack, which would you rather be?--a fat old printer," who has written a story about a confounded girl and a fellow that ruins her,--or a peer of Parliament with ten thousand a year?"
"March--my Lord March, do you take me for a fool?" says Jack, with a tearful voice. "Have I done anything to deserve this language from you?"
"I would rather win honour than honours: I would rather have genius than wealth. I would rather make my name than inherit it.   though my father's, thank God, is an honest one," said the young Colonel. "But pardon me, gentlemen," and here making, them a hasty salutation, he ran across the parade towards a young and elderly lady and a gentleman, who were now advancing.
"It is the beautiful Miss Lowther. I remember now," says my lord. "See! he takes her arm! The report is, he is engaged to her."
"You don't mean to say such a fellow is engaged to any of the Lowthers of the North?" cries out Jack. "Curse me,...   Thackeray, William M.

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