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The letter destroyed, Jinks stood for a moment with folded arms,
scowling and reflecting.
Suddenly he strode to the other side of the room, kicking off his
slippers as he went, and hurling his night-cap at the mirror.
"Yes!" he cried, grinding his teeth, "I'll do it, and without
delay--perfidious woman!"
In ten minutes Mr. Jinks had assumed his usual fashionable costume,
and buckled on his sword. A savage flirt of his locks completed
his toilette, and in all the splendor of his scarlet stockings and
embroidered waistcoat, he issued forth.


CHAPTER XXIX.
INTERCHANGE OF COMPLIMENTS.

O'Brallaghan, as he passed through the shop, requested to be informed
where Mr. Jinks was going.
Jinks stopped, and scowled at Mr. O'Brallaghan, thereby intimating
that his, Jinks', private rights were insolently invaded by a coarse
interrogatory.
O'Brallaghan observed, that if Mr. Jinks was laboring under the
impression that he, O'Brallaghan, was to be frowned down by an
individual of his description, he was greatly mistaken.


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