self most horribly with both parties, by abusing their opponents.
I might manage to reconcile this to my conscience, which is a
truly accommodating one, but I cannot to my apprehensions --
if the Lambs and Trotters ever come to a reconciliation, and
compare notes, I am ruined!

I have determined, therefore, to beat a retreat in time, and
am actually looking out for some other nest in this great city,
where old English manners are still kept up; where French is
neither eaten, drank, danced, nor spoken; and where there
are no fashionable families of retired tradesmen. This found,
I will, like a veteran rat, hasten away before I have an old
house about my ears -- bid a long, though a sorrowful adieu to
my present abode -- and leave the rival factions of the Lambs
and the Trotters, to divide the distracted empire of LITTLE
BRITAIN.

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