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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 40
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I mayn't have much head, master, but I've head enough to remember those that use me ill.

You shall see, and so shall he, and so shall hundreds more, how my spirit backs me when the time comes.

My bark is nothing to my bite.

Some that I know had better have a wild lion among 'em than me, when I am fairly loose--they had!' The knight looked at him with a smile of far deeper meaning than ordinary; and pointing to the old cupboard, followed him with his eyes while he filled and drank a glass of liquor; and smiled when his back was turned, with deeper meaning yet.
'You are in a blustering mood, my friend,' he said, when Hugh confronted him again.
'Not I, master!' cried Hugh.

'I don't say half I mean.


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