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They stumble at a small impediment, methinks. Was it my fault that her needy uncle ran off with her fortune? Would they have had me marry a beggar, because I had inadvertently made suit to her?

Nay, heaven forbid! that were too romantic for a sane burgher of Lubeck; but they are not yet become liberal enough to tolerate inadvertent oaths.

Out on thee! Hadst thou managed that business for me with three grains of common sense, the transaction would never have been known.

Ah, my dear master! but you forget that my three grains of common sense were coupled with your three grains of cunning, and they did not prove prosperous yoke-fellows.

Go to! it is a fair character that has but one blot upon it.

True, if there were but one.

Lay they any thing else to my charge?