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DulUHjVe in a cafe. "What's up, old man? You don't look like a fellow who has come to the city to enjoy himself. The other, after an effort : " Listen, I am ashamed to own it, but I am superstition." The speculation I went into in the Mud Plat I^ead has turned out trumps ; my vines have escaped the phylloxera ; my wool went to the bottom, and I got twenty per cent, more for the insnrance than it would have realised in London ; my mother-in-law is on her deathbed! ... So much prosperity frightens me 1 " R , a well-known financier, who has had some severe losses lately, and who was finally ruined by the failure of the Oriental Bank, waa talking with a sympathetic friend. " Oh, well," says he, with a melancholy air, "it can't be helped ; but it is hard at my age to recommence one's life over again." "If I were you," returned his friend, " I would recommence another ! " In a drawing room. " Oh ! yes, mine is a horrible position 1 My husband has disappeared for the last two years ; and I don't know whether he is dead or alive 1 " " How very, very awful ; to think that he may "" " Well, but just think of the position. It is impossible for me to marry again 1 V
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1905, 20 September 1884, Page 6
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219fun. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1905, 20 September 1884, Page 6
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