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and that, at any rate, he would thus secure himself from the intrusions of that
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which had been his bane. By-the-by, his last
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appertains to his residence here. Some one asked him how he could think of residing in
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I suppose, said he,
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Place, is small, but in excellent order, and always alive with shipping, and the amusing operations appertaining thereto; and the pier is a most striking object, especially at high water, when it runs out, in a straight line, for near three quarters of a mile, into the open sea. It is true our English engineers--who ruin hundreds of their fellow citizens by spending millions upon a bridge that nobody will take the trouble to pass over, and cutting tunnels under rivers, only to let the water into them when they have got all the money they can by the job--would treat this pier with infinite contempt as a thing that merely answers all the purposes for which it was erected! as if _that_ were a merit of any but the very lowest degree.
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Look at Waterloo Bridge! they say;