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He then began speculating on what the girls would have. 'Great house--great
establishment--great estate, doubtless. Why, confound it,' continued he,
casting his heavy eye lazily around, 'here's a room as big as a field in a
cramped country! Can't have less than fifty thousand a-piece, I should say,
at the least. Jawleyford, to be sure, is young,' thought he; 'may live a
long time' (puff). 'If Mrs. J. were to die (Curse--the cigar's burnt my
lips'), added he, throwing the remnant into the fire, and rolling out of
the chair to prepare for turning into bed.
If any one had told Sponge that there was a rich papa and mamma on the
look-out merely for amiable young men to bestow their fair daughters upon,
he would have laughed them to scorn, and said, 'Why, you fool, they are
only laughing at you'; or 'Don't you see they are playing you off against
somebody else?' But our hero, like other men, was blind where he himself
was concerned, and concluded that he was the exception to the general rule.
Mr. and Mrs. Jawleyford had their consultation too.


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