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"_There_ / Thy uncle -- _this_ thy first cousin, and _these_ / Are all thy near relations. " / _The Critic._
I had breakfasted by nine the next morning, and after a conversation / with my landlady respecting matters of much too mean a nature to figure / in this fastidious narrative, I filled my pipe, put on my hat, and went / out.