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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 31

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, there was a general elopement of the Roman youth withthe Sabine ladies, who were, in the most ungallant manner, abandonedto their fate by the Sabine gentlemen. It is true that the latter weretaken by surprise, but they certainly made the very best of their wayhome before they thought of avenging… … have objected to a cheap mode of divorce, but—to make use of anIrishism—there was only one single woman who happened to be a wife CHAP. I.J WAB WITH THE SABINES. 11 in the whole of the goodly company. The small Latin states,Antennae, Crustumerinm, and Coenina, were very angry at the supine-ness of…

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