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Then Read, and Twopenny Read, good-humoured and personable Twopenny, good-humoured, but thin, and felicitous in jests upon his own figure. If T. was thin, Wharry was attenuated and fleeting. The steps were little efforts, like that of a child beginning to walk; the jump comparatively vigorous, as a foot to an inch. Where he learned this figure, or what occasioned it, I could never discover.
He was strikingly thin. Twopenny was stockbroker to the Bank of England, and died in 1809. Wharry. John Wharry, who became a Bencher in 1801, died in 1812, and was buried in the Temple Church. Jackson. This was Richard Jackson, some time M.P. for New Romney, to whom Johnson, Boswell tells us, refused the epithet "Omniscient" as blasphemous, changing it to "all knowing."
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