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 1   Pre|           anxious that "A Hungarian Nabob" should attract at first
 2   Pre|                 Pg 9]~ ~A HUNGARIAN NABOB.~ ~ ~ ~
 3     I|            verse is perfect."~ ~The Nabob now suddenly turned towards
 4     I|          something seductive.~ ~The Nabob himself lay down on the
 5     I|          table.~ ~First of all, the Nabob offered it to the heydukes
 6     I|    scratching his curly poll.~ ~The Nabob opened the pocket of his
 7     I|             he extended towards the Nabob, gasping with something
 8     I|         cried several voices.~ ~The Nabob was terribly alarmed. The
 9     I|       florins," said the frightened Nabob, who could scarcely contain
10     I|          himself, but satisfied the Nabob also.~ ~And now, at a sign
11     I|             now, at a sign from the Nabob, the heydukes carried in
12     I|        greyhound, and the poet. The Nabob gradually acquired an appetite
13     I|      metaphorically buttonholed the Nabob, who scattered petty witticisms
14     I|          funeral oration.~ ~And the Nabob laughed till he got blue
15     I|           chamber of the mysterious Nabob, who went by the name of
16     I|          rich uncle, this Hungarian Nabob, this Plutus, one night
17   III|           the festivities, the rich nabob, Master Jock, has departed
18   VII|                  CHAPTER VII.~ ~THE NABOB'S BIRTHDAY.~ ~Squire John'
19   VII|       mendicants to pieces; and the Nabob and all his retainers went
20   VII|    regulation interview between the Nabob and his steward, Mr. Peter
21   VII|       seeing how the estates of the Nabob were administered.~ ~"With
22   VII|          steward had withdrawn, the Nabob sent for his fiskal, or
23   VII|             good half-hour, but the Nabob turned round at last, and
24   VII| embarrassment was observable in the Nabob's voice, which would certainly
25   VII|          fairy lakes.~ ~And now the Nabob lay down for another little
26   VII|       standstill at the feet of the Nabob, and set on the top of it
27   VII|      Kutyfalvi. He had expected the Nabob to be enraged, not rejoiced
28  VIII|            change had come over the Nabob both externally and internally.
29  VIII|           on all such occasions the Nabob and the Whitsun King would
30    IX|          what had become of the old Nabob? Could any one have recognized
31    IX|           own eyes, whether the old Nabob, on[Pg 233] whose skin he
32    IX|        gratification at finding the Nabob in the possession of such
33    IX|          happy, the more than happy Nabob, set off with his fair consort
34   XII|           and the reputation of the Nabob demanded; there was everything
35   XII|             And who so happy as the Nabob?~ ~It occurred to him that,
36   XIX|          invaded the sanctum of the Nabob with the joyful intelligence - "
37   XIX|            pity.~ ~And the good old Nabob fell down on his knees beside
38   XXI|         good neighbours," began the Nabob, while every one listened
39   XXI|          his chair and embraced the Nabob with tears of emotion. On
40   XXI|           also wished it," said the Nabob. "In her last hour, as she
41   XXI|             And now," continued the Nabob, "a word or two concerning
42   XXI|           How glad he is," said the Nabob, "just as if he knew that
43  XXII|            bedroom.~ ~There lay the Nabob with closed eyes, his hands
44  XXII|         Happy child!~ ~The good old Nabob was committed to his last
45  XXII|       hinges behind them.~ ~And the Nabob? Ah, now he is happy indeed,
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