“Impecuniosity will do you good,” Pen’s friend said …; “I don’t know anything more wholesome for a man—for an honest man, mind you—for another, the medicine loses its effect—than a state of tick. …"
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“Impecuniosity will do you good,” Pen’s friend said …; “I don’t know anything more wholesome for a man—for an honest man, mind you—for another, the medicine loses its effect—than a state of tick. …"
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Of all that impecunious community, Limpet's impecuniosity had almost reached the dignity of being proverbial.
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The next development showed that so widespread an advertisement of our intention had been given by the town-crier as to speedily furnish us with another illustration of the way in which impecuniosity and good clean Mexican dollars prove a wonderful solvent for many troubles which arise among the Chinese ; because we were agreeably surprised on the evening of the fourth day, when a man came cautiously to inform us that he was willing to sell us his house, if the purchase-money could be handed over at once.
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