The Baddington peerage, Volume 2 |
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Page 104 - Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The Shepherd in Virgil grew acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 301 - I've done nothing at all with her, Madam," the peer cried out in great heat. " I don't know how the doose you came to know anything about her; but all I know is that she turned me up, and gave me the slip, and — and — I don't know what right you have to speak to me in this way. I don't owe you any money.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Baddington peerage, Volume 2 The Baddington peerage, George Augustus H.F. Sala |
| Author | George Augustus H.F. Sala |
| Published | 1860 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 17, 2006 |
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