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A Previous Engagement
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THE late Lord Dudley and Ward was one of the most absent of men. Meeting
Sydney Smith one day in the street, he invited him to meet himself!
Dine with me to-day,--dine with me to-day,--I will get Sydney Smith to
meet you. The witty canon admitted the temptation held out to him, but
said, he was engaged with him elsewhere.
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