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MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
day or two. I'd put an end to freemasonry, and all such trumpery, I know.
"LODGE, INDEED! NICE GOINGS ON, I DARE SAY."
"Now, come, Caudle; don't let's quarrel. Eh! You're not in pain, dear? What's it all about? What are you lying laughing there at? But I'm a fool to trouble my head about you.
"And you're not going to let me know the secret, eh? You mean to say,—you're not? Now, Caudle, you know it's a hard matter to put me in a passion—not
