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Excerpt from The Devil Upon Two Sticks in England, Vol. 3 of 6: Being a Continuation of Le Diable Boiteux of Le Sage

And both at the banker's expense. -r But with what kind grace, said Don Cleofas, does he submit to the feeding people to laugh at him. 0, answered the De mon, he is not of the party:-if he were, they would lard him with compli ments, and sugar him over 'with attery; but, as he happens to be absent, their oh servations respecting him are as piquant as his ragouts.-the fact is, that about half an hour previous to the arrival of his com pany, the banker received a letter from one of his partners, to request his immediate presence in the city, on a matter of the greatest import'ance.' This summons he thought it necessary to obey; and left a.

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