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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 37
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Stop a minute.

My work, is sound, Protestant, constitutional, English work.

Is it, or is it not ?' 'No man alive can doubt it.' 'Nor dead neither.

Parliament says this here--says Parliament, "If any man, woman, or child, does anything which goes again a certain number of our acts"-- how many hanging laws may there be at this present time, Muster Gashford?
Fifty ?' 'I don't exactly know how many,' replied Gashford, leaning back in his chair and yawning; 'a great number though.' 'Well, say fifty.

Parliament says, "If any man, woman, or child, does anything again any one of them fifty acts, that man, woman, or child, shall be worked off by Dennis." George the Third steps in when they number very strong at the end of a sessions, and says, "These are too many for Dennis.


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