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I hope, my lord, if you ever come within a mile of my house that you will stay there all night.
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In a letter.
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Falkiner, C. Litton (1902). "Sir Boyle Roche". Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.. pp. p.230. 

 

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