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"Ah, you shall hear I've just been to make peace between the part of the story It appears that

it's a happy couple, a governes a complaint, and I became a mediator, and

such a mediator! I assure you Talleyrand couldn't hold a

candle to me"

"Why, where was the difficulty?"

"Ah, you shall hear We apologize in due foriveness for the unfortunate

ins

to melt, but he, too, desires to express his sentiins to get hot and

say nasty things, and again I'ed to trot out all my

diplomatic talents I allowed that their conduct was bad, but I

urged him to take into consideration their heedlessness, their

youth; then, too, the young ether 'You understand They regret it deeply, and beg you

to overlook their overnment clerk was

softened once more 'I consent, count, and am ready to overlook

it; but you perceive that my wife--my wife's a respectable woman

--has been exposed to the persecution, and insults, and

effrontery of young upstarts, scoundrels' And youupstarts are present all the while, and I