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I am sorry to say I nearly said, “D — — the lobster!” as Roundhand went and whispered to her that I was ill.

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Jane how Roundhand, Gutch, and I, had come down three in a cab, besides the driver; and my account of our adventures made her

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Roundhand could not refuse such an invitation as that, though he had told us how Mrs.R. and he were going to pass

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With respect to Roundhand, I had best also speak tenderly.

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The case of Roundhand v. Tidd is still in the memory of the public; nor can I ever understand how Bill Tidd, so poetic as he was, could ever take on with such a fat, odious, vulgar woman as Mrs. R., who was old enough to be his mother.

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“What money has been paid in today, Roundhand?” he said, in a very kind way.

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Roundhand himself, and Gutch, nineteenth clerk, son of the brother of an East Indian director, were the only two of our gents invited, as we knew very well: for they had received their invitations many weeks before, and bragged about them not a little.

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Not only did Roundhand leave, but Highmore went away.

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“West End again!” says that Gus Hoskins; and accordingly down I went, taking a place in a cab which Roundhand hired for himself, Gutch, and me, and for which he very generously paid eight shillings.

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Once, Roundhand was going to help Gus before me; when his wife, who was seated at the head of the table, looking very big and fierce in red crape and a turban, shouted out, “Antony!” and poor R. dropped the plate, and blushed as red as anything.

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