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ing what I have written, I really cannot see there is occasion to add another sentence.
Had I not chosen, for reasons best known to myself, thus to make my appearance incog. I would certainly have sate for my picture, and have tried to cast a look at my title page, as lively and good humoured, as that of Mr. Hume himself. My bookseller, indeed, told me, it would have been a much more creditable way of doing the thing; "and then, you know, Sir," said he, "we could have charged the other sixpence."
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