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MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
"Served me right?
"And when I so seldom buy a book! No: I don't see how it served me right. If you can buy the same book in France for four shillings that people here have the impudence to ask more than a guinea for—well, if they do steal it, that's their affair, not ours. As if there was anything in a book to steal!
"A NEEDLE CASE, THAT UNDER MY NOSE YOU GAVE TO MISS PRETTYMAN."