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  • "And aren't we to have the pipes and tobacco, after coming so far to-night?" said some; but they were all well enough pleased when his honour got up to drink with them, and sent for more spirits from a shebean-house, [19] where they very civilly let him have it upon credit.

    Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • – "And aren't we to have the pipes and tobacco, after coming so far to-night?" says some; but they were all well enough pleased when his honor got up to drink with them, and sent for more spirits from a shebean-house 21, where they very civilly let him have it upon credit – so the night passed off very merrily, but to my mind Sir Condy was rather upon the sad order in the midst of it all, not finding there had been such a great talk about himself after his death as he had always expected to hear.

    Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale 1800

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