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"Thin, upon my solevation, I'm sarry to hear it, and so will all at home, for there's not in the parish we're sittin' in a couple that our family has a greater regard an' friendship for, than him and yourself. Faix, my modher, no longer ago than Friday night last, argued down Bartle Meegan's throath, that you and Biddy Martin wor the two portliest weemen that comes into the chapel.
Once, on a special occasion, I met the banker, Charles, who had stuck to his profession at Launceston, instead of adventuring across the Straits with his brothers. Besides his quiet banking vocation, he was, I think, the portliest of the family, which may be the explanation.
He grew to be very thin before he died, thinner than Benjamin Dobbs, who is now portliest among the portly. Raff Brinker and his vrouw have been living comfortably in Amsterdam for many years a faithful, happy pair, as simple and straightforward in their good fortune as they were patient and trustful in darker days.
Up started four or five gallants, offering assistance, and standing round her, wrangling with one another, and besetting her steps. "Let me pass, gentles," she said with dignity, "I am carrying wine in haste to my father." "Nay, fair one, you pass not our bounds without toll," said the portliest of the set. "Hush, rudesby; fair dames in disguise must be treated after other sort."
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