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Chapter 90 Boulogne!hah!so we are all got togetherdebtors and sinners before heaven; a jolly set of usbut I cant stay and quaff it off with youIm pursued myself like a hundred devils, and shall be overtaken, before I can well change horses:for heavens sake, make hasteTis for high-treason, quoth a very little man, whispering as low as he could to a very tall man, that stood next himOr else for murder; quoth the tall manWell thrown, Size-ace! quoth I. No; quoth a third, the gentleman has been committing A! ma chere fille! said I, as she trippd by from her matinsyou look as rosy as the morning (for the sun was rising, and it made the compliment the more gracious)No; it cant be that, quoth a fourth(she made a curtsy to meI kissd my hand) tis debt, continued he: Tis certainly for debt; quoth a fifth; I would not pay that gentlemans debts, quoth Ace, for a thousand pounds; nor would I, quoth Size, for six times the sumWell thrown, Size-ace, again! quoth I;but I have no debt but the debt of Nature, and I want but patience of her, and I will pay her every farthing I owe herHow can you be so hard- hearted, Madam, to arrest a poor traveller going along without molestation to any one upon his lawful occasions? do stop that death-looking, long-striding scoundrel of a scare-sinner, who is posting after mehe never would have followed me but for youif it be but for a stage or two, just to give me start of him, I beseech you, madamdo, dear lady Now, in troth, tis a great pity, quoth mine Irish host, that all this good courtship should be lost; for the young gentlewoman has been after going out of hearing of it all along. Simpleton! quoth I. So you have nothing else in Boulogne worth seeing? By Jasus! there is the finest Seminary for the Humanities There cannot be a finer; quoth I. |
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