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The House by the Church-Yard

CHAPTER XCIV
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She broke one of the coach windows in Martin's-row, and the other--_there_, just opposite the Phoenix.' The glass was glittering on the road.

'She had rings on her hand, and her knuckles were bleeding, and it was said 'twas poor Mrs.Nutter going away with the keepers to a mad-house.' Toole turned pale and ground his teeth, looking towards Dublin.
'I passed it myself near Island-bridge; I did hear screeching, but I thought 'twas from t'other side of the wall.

There was a fellow in an old blue and silver coat with the driver--eh ?' 'The same,' said the boy; and Toole, with difficulty swallowing down his rage, hurried into the house, resolved to take Lowe's advice on the matter, and ready to swear to poor Sally's perfect sanity--'the crature!--the villains!' But now he had only a moment to pull off his boots, to get into his grand costume, and seize his cane and his muff, too--for he sported one; and so transformed and splendid, he marched down the paved _trottoir_--Doctor Pell happily not yet arrived--to Sturk's house.

There was a hackney coach near the steps..


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