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CHAPTER II—HOW THE PARLOURS ADDED A FEW WORDS
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I have the honour of presenting myself by the name of Jackman. I esteem1 it a proud privilege to go down to posterity2 through the instrumentality of the most remarkable3 boy that ever lived,—by the name of JEMMY JACKMAN LIRRIPER,—and of my most worthy4 and most highly respected friend, Mrs. Emma Lirriper, of Eighty-one, Norfolk Street, Strand5, in the County of Middlesex, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
It is not for me to express the rapture6 with which we received that dear and eminently7 remarkable boy, on the occurrence of his first Christmas holidays. Suffice it to observe that when he came flying into the house with two splendid prizes (Arithmetic, and Exemplary Conduct), Mrs. Lirriper and myself embraced with emotion, and instantly took him to the Play, where we were all three admirably entertained.
Nor is it to render homage8 to the virtues9 of the best of her good and honoured sex—whom, in deference10 to her unassuming worth, I will only here designate by the initials E. L.—that I add this record to the bundle of papers with which our, in a most distinguished11 degree, remarkable boy has expressed himself delighted, before re-consigning the same to the left-hand glass closet of Mrs. Lirriper’s little bookcase.
Neither is it to
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