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Lewis Rand

CHAPTER II
12/39

You won't?
Then let's go over to Widewilt's Island.

Well, they whipped a man this morning and he's in the pillory now, down by the market.

Let's go look at him .-- Pshaw! what's the use of books! Don't you want to see the Guard turn out at noon, and hear the trumpet blow?
Well, come on to the bridge! Nancy, the apple-woman, is there too." The shop near the bridge to which they resorted was dark and low, but learning was spread upon its counter, and a benevolent dragon of knowledge in horn spectacles ran over the wares for Lewis Rand.

"De Jure Maritimo, six shillings eightpence, my lad.

Burnet's History and Demosthenes' Orations, two crowns, Mr.Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a great book and dear! Common Sense--and that's Tom Paine's, and you may have it for two pistareens." The boy shook his head.


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