The Grinder Papers — page 36: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 31 NUMBER FOUR MISS CHARITY GRINDER AT A PARTY. I wish Miss Charity Grinder would please to—well—to marry —I won't say anything worse; and when she does marry, I hope it will be some reverend gentleman, who is going to India \ or some other horrid place, as a missionary, without the slight- est intention of coming back again. Poor man, whata life she'll lead him! The impudence of that woman is beyondall. I never saw her equal. She exhibited it in the first place by coming here without invitation. She tormented poor sister Martha first, and when she was completely worn out—I always shall believe she gave Charity my direction—she says she didn’t; but how could she get it, Id like to know? However it was, we were waked up at five in the morning by such a ringing of the bell, and there, if you'll believe me, when I looked out of the window in my nightcap, was Charity, in the milkman’s wagon. He! he! he!” she screamed, as she looked up. ‘‘Sur- prised, ain’t ye, I started off early so’s to get here to breakfast, and on the way I met this here gentleman, and he said he Comicbooks €o