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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 69
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Why, you're afraid of Hugh! Ha ha ha! Afraid of gruff, old, noisy Hugh!' 'What man is he, I ask you,' he rejoined so fiercely, that Barnaby stopped in his laugh, and shrinking back, surveyed him with a look of terrified amazement.
'Why, how stern you are! You make me fear you, though you are my father.
Why do you speak to me so ?' -- 'I want,' he answered, putting away the hand which his son, with a timid desire to propitiate him, laid upon his sleeve,--'I want an answer, and you give me only jeers and questions.

Who have you brought with you to this hiding-place, poor fool; and where is the blind man ?' 'I don't know where.

His house was close shut.

I waited, but no person came; that was no fault of mine.

This is Hugh--brave Hugh, who broke into that ugly jail, and set us free.


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