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 get fairly at me, the ungracious Duchess has pelted me with a set of as pitiful misadventures and cross accidents as ever small  sustained.

the beginning of the last chapter, I informed you exactly when I was born;—but I did not inform you, how. No; that particular was reserved entirely for a chapter by itself;—besides, Sir, as you and I are in a manner perfect strangers to each other, it would not have been proper to have let you into too many circumstances relating to myself all at once.—You must have a little patience. I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge Rh