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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 23
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Fill high.

A bumper with a bead in the middle! Give me enough of this,' he added, as he tossed it down his hairy throat, 'and I'll do murder if you ask me!' 'As I don't mean to ask you, and you might possibly do it without being invited if you went on much further,' said Mr Chester with great composure, we will stop, if agreeable to you, my good friend, at the next glass.

You were drinking before you came here.' 'I always am when I can get it,' cried Hugh boisterously, waving the empty glass above his head, and throwing himself into a rude dancing attitude.

'I always am.

Why not?
Ha ha ha! What's so good to me as this?
What ever has been?
What else has kept away the cold on bitter nights, and driven hunger off in starving times?
What else has given me the strength and courage of a man, when men would have left me to die, a puny child?
I should never have had a man's heart but for this.


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