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My father's collection was not great, but to make amends, it was curious; and consequently he was some time in making it; he had the great good fortune however, to set off well, in getting Bruscambille's prologue upon long noses, almost for nothing -- for he gave no more for Bruscambille than three half-crowns; owing indeed to the strong fancy which the stall-man saw my father had for the book the moment he laid his hands upon it.
-- -- -There are not three Bruscambilles in Christendom -- said the stall-man, except what are chain'd up in the libraries of the curious. My father flung down the money as quick as lightning -- -- -took Bruscambille into his bosom -- -- -hied home from Piccadilly to Coleman-street with it, as he would have hied home with a treasure, without taking his hand once off from Bruscambille all the way.