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ALL IN A GARDEN FAIR. 33
^vitll many that he did not know ; danced all
the hornpipes lie knew, with many steps which
he only guessed ; and smoked as much tobacco
as can be smoked in a single day. The next
morning he was no longer in heaven, but in
l)urgatory. The next—but here we must leave
him, the Admiral, Lord Nelson, and the fleet
still looking on with increased interest. Now,
as these gentlemen had been pursuing the
shadow^ of wealth all the time they were in the
City when they had money to play with, it was
a kind of purgatory to them that they must
pursue it still when they had none. People
who are so unhappy or so wicked as to have
actually become rich need not be considered
ill this story.
In fact the village reversed the proverb,
because it showed how pride comet h after a
fall, instead of before it. For the people who
inhabited its cottages and trim villas had all, in
fact, failed, wound up, made composition, or
agreed with their creditors.
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