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Now, it's too late for me to begin shovelling and sifting at alphabeds and grammar-books. I'm getting to be a old bird, and I want to take it easy. How can I get that reading, Wegg? 'Hem! Flattered, sir, I am sure, said Wegg, beginning to regard himself in quite a new light. 'Hew! This is the offer you mentioned, sir? 'Yes. Do you like it? 'I am considering of it, Mr Boffin.
"If they only knew what an unfinished girl I am that I can't talk Italian, or use globes, or show any of the accomplishments they learn at boarding schools, how they would despise me! Better sell all this finery and buy myself grammar-books and dictionaries and a history of all the philosophies!"
Yet she continued for a while to address me by the more formal 'vous, and, when I drew her attention to this, smiled, and composing, constructing a phrase like those that are put into the grammar-books of foreign languages with no other object than to teach us to make use of a new word, ended it with my Christian name.
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