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[Illustration: _First Newly-Rich._ "It's a great secret, but I must
tell you. My husband has been offered a peerage."
_Second ditto._ "Really! That's rather interesting. We thought of
having one, but they're so expensive and we are economising just now."]
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Our Considerate Scribes.
"Presumptious is a hard word that I would not readily apply to
any man."--_Daily Paper._
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"PASSIVE PESSIMISM.