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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 59
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Yes, beautiful Dolly--charmer--enslaver--S.

Tappertit is all your own!' As he said these words he advanced towards her.

Dolly retreated till she could go no farther, and then sank down upon the floor.

Thinking it very possible that this might be maiden modesty, Simon essayed to raise her; on which Dolly, goaded to desperation, wound her hands in his hair, and crying out amidst her tears that he was a dreadful little wretch, and always had been, shook, and pulled, and beat him, until he was fain to call for help, most lustily.

Hugh had never admired her half so much as at that moment.
'She's in an excited state to-night,' said Simon, as he smoothed his rumpled feathers, 'and don't know when she's well off.


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