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 1 2|        very curious historical memoirs in my hands, and I cannot
 2 2|     have to be quick about it. Memoirs are falling out of fashion.' ~" '
 3 2|     fashion.' ~" 'What are the memoirs - contemporaneous, ancient,
 4 2|   contemporaneous, ancient, or memoirs of the court, or what?' ~" '
 5 2|    simpleton that will do your memoirs for you, in his aunt's name,
 6 2|        instance, and write the memoirs. When you have finished
 7 2|   found to put her name to the memoirs.' ~" 'Oh,' I groaned; 'why
 8 2|       you can write historical memoirs, a work of art such as never
 9 2|       afraid the affair of the Memoirs, now of such importance
10 2| half-way through the volume of Memoirs; I dared not beg for assistance
11 2|        memory ' ~" 'And writes Memoirs,' put in the countess, who
12 2|    silence that prevailed. ~" 'Memoirs of a sham countess, madame,'
13 2|     Very soon I had to take my Memoirs in manuscript to my literary-contractor.