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New York Weekly
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v. 23 no. 31
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New York Weekly, v. XXIII, no. 31, June 18, 1868 (Issue) |
Author: |
Quill, John
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Date: |
June 18, 1868 |
First Sentence: |
Alphonso De Butes was an Englishman, who, in addition to his being the scion of a noble house, and having ancestors who came over with the conqueror, and being poor but yet proud and the possessor of an aristocratic and haughty mien, and the possessor of an aristocratic and haughty mien, was the hero of a novel, and through page after page and chapter after chapter he was beset with apparently insurmountable difficulties, betrayed by polished but utterly debased scoundrels, tangled in a perfect web of crime of which he was innocent, and made a victim generally by every designing rascal that happened to come along. |
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