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MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
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my conscience what you have, for the world! I wouldn't treat anybody as you treat—no, I'm not mad! It's you, Mr. Caudle, who are mad, or bad—and that's worse! I can't even so much as speak of a shirt button, but that I'm threatened to be made nobody of in my own house! Caudle, you've a heart like a hearth-stone, you have! To threaten me, and only because a button—a button——"
"I was conscious of no more than this," says Caudle: "for here nature relieved me with a sweet, deep sleep."
