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312 thing. I never say that, neither repeat it to my heart, for fix it in such place, even when it have been spoke of myself. No, no; I am not much droll. Talk of your book—if you will not have my memoirs, what will you have for make it?" "I have known so many people of rank in my time, and the lower world is so eager to know something of that circle from which they are necessarily excluded, that I proposed a work of reminiscences and anecdotes made on the plan of one written by a lady, which of course you have not read, but which had a prodigious run last year, but is probably superseded now. My object is to get a thousand pounds, as she did." "A thousand pounds for a book that live a year only. O! my dear lady, that never will do, it ruin the man which publish." "That can be nothing to me, you know, Count, if I get the money?" "Nothing to you? Nothing to an Inglis lady of rank, that you have injure the man of commerce? When he come to you with the document and shew he made loss, you must repay, and the repay is inconvenient." "It would be so, undoubtedly, but I don't see the necessity; there is no law to that end, I am certain." "If there is no law in your inside to that end, you