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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 123

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Roman Soldier. 9S COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. [CHAP. X. sense; and the effect of the knocking at the door had been so stunning,that she could scarcely call her head her own. She was resolved thather husband should make as much noise in the world as her brother-in-law,—that he should gain an important… … Miss Fabia, the Younger, astonished at the Patricians double-knock. Those who would supply a higher motive to the ambition of C. Licmius,have asserted that his wife must have been accustomed to the loudknockings at the house of her father, who bad once been consul; butwhether the young lady heard…

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