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Excerpt from Quentin Durward, Vol. 1 of 2: A Romance
When honest Dogberry sums up and recites all the claims which he had to respectability, and which, as he Opined, ought to have exempted him from the injurious appellation conferred on him by Master Gentleman Con rade, it is remarkable that he lays not more emphasis even upon his double gown, (a matter of some importance m a certain ci -devant capital which I wot of or upon his being a pretty piece of ?esh as any in Messina, or even upon the conclusive argument of his being a rich fellow enough, than upon his being one that hath had losses.
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