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PAUL CLIFFORD.
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CHAPTER II.


Servant. Get away, I say, wid dat nasty bell.
Punch. Do you call this a bell? (patting it.) It is an organ!
Servant. I say it is a bell—a nasty bell!
Punch. I say it is an organ, (striking him with it,)—what do you say it is now?
Servant. An organ, Mr. Punch.

The Tragical Comedy of Punch and Judy.


The next morning, before Lucy and her father had left their apartments, Brandon, who was a remarkably early riser, had disturbed the luxurious Mauleverer in his first slumber. Although the courtier possessed a villa some miles from Bath, he preferred a lodging in the town, both as being warmer than a rarely inhabited country-house, and as being, to an indolent man, more immedi-