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- Champagne and turtle.
- Red herrings and Soda water.
- Good advice.
- Gardening.
- Croquet.
- Musical soirées.
- Aunt Sally.
- Mild tobacco.
- "The Saturday Review."
- A carriage with outriders, etc., etc.
After the modern method. But that would not do.
And if he had but been a convict lunatic, and had shot at the Queen, killed all his creditors to avoid paying them, or indulged in any other little amiable eccentricity of that kind, they would have given him in addition—
The healthiest situation in England, on Easthampstead Plain.
Free run of Windsor Forest.
The Times every morning.
A double-barrelled gun and pointers, and leave to shoot three Wellington College boys a week (not more) in case black game was scarce.
But as he was neither mad enough nor bad enough to be allowed such luxuries, they grew desperate, and fell into bad ways, viz.—
5. Suffumigations of sulphur.
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