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Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England

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Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitation of a Swell as ever we saw. He had all the airy dreaminess of a hereditary high flyer, while his big talk and off-hand manner strengthened the delusion.


It was only when you came to close quarters with him and found that though he talked in pounds he acted in pence, and marked his fine dictionary words and laboured expletives, that you came to the conclusion that he was “painfully gentlemanly.” So few people, however, agree upon what a gentleman is, that Billy was well calculated to pass muster with the million. Fine shirts, fine ties, fine talk, fine trinkets, go a long way towards furnishing the character with many. Billy was liberal, not to say prodigal, in all these. The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. Just as the man who is always talking about honour, morality, fine feeling, and so on never knows anything of these qualities but the name. - Summary From The Book (17 hr 55 min)

Chapters

Preface and Chapter 1

11:49

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Chapter 2

11:35

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Chapter 3

18:26

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Chapter 4

10:06

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Chapter 5

16:15

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Chapter 6

17:31

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Chapter 7

12:30

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Chapter 8

11:25

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Chapter 9

9:31

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Chapter 10

8:07

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Chapter 11

25:38

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Chapter 12

23:24

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Chapter 13

19:45

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Chapter 14

12:32

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Chapter 15

16:35

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Chapter 16

13:20

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Chapter 17

15:59

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Chapter 18

7:08

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Chapter 19

20:30

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Chapter 20

12:12

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Chapter 21

26:27

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Chapter 22

17:30

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Chapter 23

18:27

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Chapter 24

14:21

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Chapter 25

17:31

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Chapter 26

20:32

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Chapter 27

14:19

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Chapter 28

19:33

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Chapter 29

19:34

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Chapter 30

11:40

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Chapter 31

21:49

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Chapter 32

19:04

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Chapter 33

21:09

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Chapter 34

15:52

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Chapter 35

19:57

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Chapter 36

21:20

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Chapter 37

11:59

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Chapter 38

24:00

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Chapter 39

20:35

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Chapter 40

18:22

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Chapter 41

24:32

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Chapter 42

9:05

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Chapter 43

24:18

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Chapter 44

17:13

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Chapter 45

13:52

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Chapter 46

22:19

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Chapter 47

18:00

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Chapter 48

11:57

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Chapter 49

22:14

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Chapter 50

23:33

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Chapter 51

6:24

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Chapter 52

20:27

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Chapter 53

20:55

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Chapter 54

32:47

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Chapter 55

16:47

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Chapter 56

16:06

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Chapter 57

9:55

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Chapter 58

18:26

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Chapter 59

12:47

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Chapter 60

10:40

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Chapter 61

29:32

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Chapter 62

15:32

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Chapter 63

9:40

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