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'Don't direct your halfpay-officers' gaze at me, ma'am, if you please, 'interposed Miss Charity;' for I won't bear it. '
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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‘Don’t direct your halfpay – officers’ gaze at me, ma’am, if you please,’ interposed Miss Charity; ‘for
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