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After the enthusiastic cheering which rang through old Chatteris had
subsided, Captain Costigan rose in reply, and made a speech of twenty
minutes, in which he was repeatedly overcome by his emotions.
The gallant Captain said he must be pardoned for incoherence, if his
heart was too full to speak. He was quitting a city celebrated for its
antiquitee, its hospitalitee, the beautee of its women, the manly
fidelitee, generositee, and jovialitee of its men. (Cheers.) He was going
from that ancient and venerable city, of which while Mimoree held her
sayt, he should never think without the fondest emotion, to a
methrawpolis where the talents of his daughther were about to have full
play, and where he would watch over her like a guardian angel. He should
never forget that it was at Chatteris she had acquired the skill which
she was about to exercise in another sphere, and in her name and his own
Jack Costigan thanked and blessed them. The gallant officer's speech was
received with tremendous cheers.
Mr. Hicks, Croupier, in a brilliant and energetic manner, proposed Miss
Fotheringay's health.
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