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"A merrier man Within the limits of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal." Love's Labour's Lost.
I had a client in R by the name of Monell; and it was from him I had planned to learn the best way of approaching Mrs. Belden. When, therefore, I was so fortunate as to meet him, almost on my arrival, driving on the long road behind his famous trotter Alfred, I regarded the encounter as a most auspicious beginning of a very doubtful enterprise.