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excepted) as no art or management of the spatula can come up to.⁠⸻It falls out very luckily, replied Phutatorius , that the second edition of my treatise de Concubinis retinendis is at this instant in the press.⁠⸻You may take any leaf of it, said Eugenius ⁠⸻no matter which.⁠⸺⁠Provided, quoth Yorick , there is no bawdry in it.⁠⸻

They are just now, replied Phutatorius , printing off the ninth chapter⁠⸺⁠which is the last chapter but one in the book.⁠⸺⁠Pray what is the title of that chapter? said Yorick ; making a respectful bow to Phutatorius as he spoke.⁠⸻I think, answered Phutatorius , ’tis that de re concubinariâ .

For Heaven’s sake keep out of that chapter, quoth Yorick .

⸺⁠By all means⁠—added Eugenius .

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