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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 2
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'My eyes have seen more light than yours, but I wouldn't change with you.' 'What do you mean ?' 'Mean! I could have told you he wasn't hurt, five minutes ago.

Give me the light, friend; ride forward at a gentler pace; and good night.' In handing up the lantern, the man necessarily cast its rays full on the speaker's face.

Their eyes met at the instant.

He suddenly dropped it and crushed it with his foot.
'Did you never see a locksmith before, that you start as if you had come upon a ghost ?' cried the old man in the chaise, 'or is this,' he added hastily, thrusting his hand into the tool basket and drawing out a hammer, 'a scheme for robbing me?
I know these roads, friend.

When I travel them, I carry nothing but a few shillings, and not a crown's worth of them.


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