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Maple, said Mary, who seemed to me I did not then know why more relieved than disappointed by her uncle's decision, 'I have something that I want put with the rest; only quite a small packet. "We left that curious room not unwillingly, I think. Uncle Oldys's orders were carried out that same day. And so," concludes Mr.
Henry Oldys, whose name may be known to some of my readers as that of the author of a row of volumes labelled Oldys's Works, which occupy a place that must be honoured, since it is so rarely touched, upon the shelves of many a substantial library. Dr.
He never opened a book, save a manual of husbandry or a ready reckoner; he could conceive of no reason for walking, unless it were the business of the farm. Nothing irritated him more than to see Desmond stretched at length with his nose in Mr. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or a volume of Hakluyt's Voyages, or perhaps Mr. Oldys's Life of Sir Walter Raleigh.
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