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Updated: May 9, 2025

Middleton rejoined with sober jocularity: "No, sir, it will not pass; and your uncertainty in regard to the run of the line would only be extended were the line centipedal. Our recommendation is, that you erase it before the arrival of the ferule. This might do: 'In Assignation's name he assignats'; signifying that he pre-eminently flourishes hypothetical promises, to pay by appointment.

George Meredith - The Egoist