[Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBarnaby Rudge CHAPTER 69 8/23
'To be sure he will! A wise man, father, and one who can teach us to be rich.
Oh! I know him, I know him.' He was speedily dressed, and as well disguised as he could be.
With a lighter heart he then set off upon his second journey, leaving Hugh, who was still in a drunken stupor, stretched upon the ground within the shed, and his father walking to and fro before it. The murderer, full of anxious thoughts, looked after him, and paced up and down, disquieted by every breath of air that whispered among the boughs, and by every light shadow thrown by the passing clouds upon the daisied ground.
He was anxious for his safe return, and yet, though his own life and safety hung upon it, felt a relief while he was gone.
In the intense selfishness which the constant presence before him of his great crimes, and their consequences here and hereafter, engendered, every thought of Barnaby, as his son, was swallowed up and lost.
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