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1  They are hardly considered the thing.
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2  It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
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3  I happen to be more than usually hard up.
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4  You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest.
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5  They will hardly venture to come after us there.
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6  Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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7  It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
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8  However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.
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9  It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once.
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10  I need hardly tell you that in families of high position strange coincidences are not supposed to occur.
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11  You can hardly have forgotten that some one very closely connected with you was very nearly carried off this week in Paris by a severe chill.
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12  It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again.
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13  And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one's health or one's happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes.
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