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There is some mistake here. What a stupid blunder to bring this bust here, instead of the right one!

Ha! ha! ha! it is the right one, dear lady! it is the right one.

Do you think to persuade me, my Lord, that is not the very bust which was taken of yourself six months ago by Mr. Thumbit?

And is not the bust taken of his Lordship six months ago very fit to receive the honour earned by a speech written by him, probably about the same period?

Fie! fie! Mr. O'Honikin! to attempt to deceive me, and wrong yourself; to pluck the eagle's feathers from your own outstretched wings, to stick them in the pinions of a

Indeed, Madam, that very eloquent speech which I had the honour of reading to your Ladyship and this good company, is no more my own than this wig (taking off the wig), which I owe to the bounty of Lady Shrewdly.