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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 60
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You know who it is--Barnaby, who brought the soldier down, at Westminster.

Has any man seen or heard of him ?' They shook their heads, and murmured an answer in the negative, as each man looked round and appealed to his fellow; when a noise was heard without, and a man was heard to say that he wanted Hugh--that he must see Hugh.
'He is but one man,' cried Hugh to those who kept the door; 'let him come in.' 'Ay, ay!' muttered the others.

'Let him come in.

Let him come in.' The door was accordingly unlocked and opened.

A one-armed man, with his head and face tied up with a bloody cloth, as though he had been severely beaten, his clothes torn, and his remaining hand grasping a thick stick, rushed in among them, and panting for breath, demanded which was Hugh.
'Here he is,' replied the person he inquired for.


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