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She had that nice sense of delicacy, rather unusual in a child. But then she wasn't an everyday child. "Cynthia," called Rachel from the foot of the stairs, "don't you want to go out for a walk? They've been unloading the Mingo, and they have a store of new things at the Merrits'." That was the great East India emporium. "Oh, yes!" She skipped across the floor and ran downstairs lightly.
But my bisniss was at his country-house, where I made my first ontray into fashnabl life. I was knife, errint, and stable-boy then, and an't ashamed to own it; for my merrits have raised me to what I am two livries, forty pound a year, malt-licker, washin, silk-stocking, and wax candles not countin wails, which is somethink pretty considerable at OUR house, I can tell you.
"They must go off and build up new places. And some people are going West, as if there wasn't room here. Have you noticed that we are overcrowded?" "Well, sometimes along the docks it looks that way." "I like a good many people. Often Merrits' is crowded, and it's funny to catch bits of sentences. And at Plummer's as well.
"With this andsum enuity it may be supposed that Frederick wanted for nothink. Nor did he. "Merrits and vuttues such as his coodnt long pass unperseavd in the world. Admitted to the most fashnabble parties, it wasn't long befor sevral of the young ladies viewed him with a favorable i; one, ixpecially, the lovely Miss Hemily Mulligatawney, daughter of the Heast-Injar Derector of that name.
They are always building ships down there and turn out some mighty fine ones. And fishing; there's a sight of cod, and haddock, and mackerel, and all the other fish in season. They salt them and take them half over the world. And there's a rope-walk you'd enjoy seeing, leastways you would if you were a boy. And there are some stores. We have lots of goods consigned to the Merrits.
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