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Not that he favored any such innovation: Move up-town! Why, my dear sir! he protested, when the subject was first mentioned, is there nothing in the polish of these old tables and chairs, rubbed bright by the elbows of countless good fellows, that appeals to you? Do you think any modern varnish can replace it? Here I have sat for thirty years or more, and--please God!--here I want to continue to sit.