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 rance—'Tis every syllable of it false, cried the Corporal, before she had half finished the sentence—

—I know it to be fact, said Bridget, from credible witnesses.

Upon my honour, said the Corporal, laying his hand upon his heart, and blushing as he spoke with honest resentment—'tis a story, Mrs. Bridget, as false as hell—Not, said Bridget, interrupting him, that either I or my mistress care a halfpenny about it, whether 'tis so or noonly that when one is married, one would chuse to have such a thing by one at least—