The Vicar of Wakefield
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June, six children at the tea table, and your son George marries Arabella Wilmot tomorrow. You play the vicar: a man who gives away his parish income because a private fortune keeps the house easy, and who hung an epitaph for his wife above the mantel while she is very much alive. Then a rider asks which gentleman entrusted money to a London merchant. The warehouse was stripped this morning, and the last paper in his case bears tomorrow's date and Mr Wilmot's signature.
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