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 party, though I must hire an officiating curate, and deprive poor dear Mrs. Folliott, for several weeks, of the pleasure of combing my wig.

I hope, if I am to be of the party, our ship is not to be the ship of fools: He! He!

If you are one of the party, sir, it most assuredly will not: Ha! Ha!

Pray sir, what do you mean by Ha! Ha!?

Precisely, sir, what you mean by He! He!

You need not dispute about terms; they are two modes of expressing merriment, with or without reason; reason being in no way