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East Lynne

CHAPTER XI
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I hear there was a fine scene yesterday morning; some of the unfortunate wretches he has taken in made their appearance here, all the way from town." "Oh, they are Jews half of them," slightingly spoke Mr.Warburton.

"If they do lose a little, it will be an agreeable novelty to them." "Jews have as much right to their own as we have, Mr.Warburton," was the peer's angry reprimand.

"And if they were Turks and infidels, it would not excuse Mount Severn's practices.

Isabel says it was you, Mr.
Carlyle, who contrived to get rid of them." "By convincing them that East Lynne and its furniture belonged to me.
But there are those two men upstairs, in possession of--of him; I could not get rid of them." The earl looked at him.

"I do not understand you." "Did you not know that they have seized the corpse ?" asked Mr.Carlyle, dropping his voice.


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