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The million pound banknote

'Try me - oh, do, I beg of you! Only just try me for thirty or forty years, and if -

'Oh, well, all right; it's but a little thing to ask, take her along.'

Happy, we two? There are not words enough in the unabridged to describe it. And when London got the whole history, a day or two later, of my month's adventures with that bank-note, and how they ended, did London talk, and have a good time? Yes.