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MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
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"My brother? Brother Tom?
"Oh, Caudle! dear Caudle——"
"It was too much for the poor soul," says Caudle; "she sobbed as if her heart would break, and I——" and here the MS. is blotted, as though Caudle himself had dropped tears as he wrote.
