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No, no, child! a tallow one will do well enough. (Exeunt Lady Goodbody, Miss Martin, and Hannah, Landlady conducting them.

Yes, Doll, give her a tallow candle, and a stinking one too.

The lady seems a very good lady, Mr. Sauce-box; and as to stinking candles I would have you to know we have no such things in the house.

That is plaguy unlucky then, for this is the first time since I came to the house that you have been without them.—Confound the old stingy hypocrite! I wish they smelt like carrion for her sake.

What makes you so bitter against the poor lady? I'm sure she is as civil a spoken lady as

Yes, mighty civil, truly. I hate your smooth-spoken people: it is licking the butter off other people's bread that keeps their tongues so well oil'd. I drove like the devil to get here before the