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"And can never, of course, require a warming-pan," remarked Frank. "Lar! tha b'est a queer little chap," thought Mary; but being too polite to say as much, she merely smiled pleasantly at the remark, as she tripped out of the room.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846