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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 76
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Let somebody go to inquire.

They never will hang me.

They never can .-- Yes, they will,' he cried, starting to his feet with a terrible scream.
'They'll hang me by a trick, and keep the pardon back.

It's a plot against me.

I shall lose my life!' And uttering another yell, he fell in a fit upon the ground.
'See the hangman when it comes home to him!' cried Hugh again, as they bore him away--'Ha ha ha! Courage, bold Barnaby, what care we?
Your hand! They do well to put us out of the world, for if we got loose a second time, we wouldn't let them off so easy, eh?
Another shake! A man can die but once.


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