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Updated: May 26, 2025

As for Pen, he never had been so delighted in his life: his hand trembled as he cut the string of the packet, and beheld within a smart set of new neat calico-bound books travels, and novels, and poems. "Sport the oak, Pidgeon," said he. "I'm not at home to anybody to-day."

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis