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'Tis a pity, cried my father one winter's night, after a three hours' painful translation of Slawkenbergius -- -- 'tis a pity, cried my father, putting my mother's thread-paper into the book for a mark, as he spoke -- -- -that truth, brother Toby, should shut herself up in such impregnable fastnesses, and be so obstinate as not to surrender herself sometimes up upon the closest siege.
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