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 rity go together: they are all one, as it were;—to me at any rate. (aside.)

Now, sir—

Pray, sir, let your science alone, or you will put me under the painful necessity of demolishing it bit by bit, as I have done your exordium. I will undertake it any morning; but it is too hard exercise after dinner.

Well, sir, in the meantime I hold my science established.

And I hold it demolished.

Pray, gentlemen, pocket your manuscripts; fill your glasses; and consider what we shall do with our money.