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Hour be hour, as th' prisints ar-re delivered, th' bank rates go up. Th' Threeasury Departmint has to go on a silver basis, there bein' no goold to mannyfacther into plunks. "Inside th' house th' prisints cast a goolden gleam on th' beauchious scene. Th' happy father is seen seated at a table, dictattin' millyion-dollar checks to a stinographer.
"What," sez he, "is she engaged to another?" "Who?" sez I, turnin' like lightnin' and facin' him. "Why, Miss Smith, your niece or grand-child who is with you. That beauchious creature!" sez he. "Faithful Smith!" sez I faintly, "is she the one you are talkin' about?" "Yes," sez he, "your grand-daughter, is she not?"
He wuz evidently continuing a conversation begun sometime before. "Oh, that lost companion of mine! oh, that beauchious female so humilitous in her sweet humility, so super-conscious of man's superior attainments, she seemingly only existed to minister to my corporial necessities." "Well she might, Professor, well she might," sez Blandina.
What I want to say to you is in relation to Miss Smith, she looks sad but beauchious. I like her looks. You may have noticed that I have occasionally glanced in the direction of your party." "Yes," sez I, "Heaven knows I have noticed it!" He paused, as if for a reply, and I sez, "How did you mean to tackle the job?" "By makin' her my wife," sez he.
As f'r th' other thing, he says, 'th' less ye say about that, th' betther, he says. 'If some iv these beauchious Ph'lippeen belles ar-round here hears, he says, 'that ye're in that line, they may call on ye to give ye a chaste salute, he says, 'an', he says, 'f'rget, he says, 'to take th' see-gars out iv their mouths, he says. 'Ye desthroyed a lot iv coal, ye tell me, he says.
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