Good night, Uncle Copas!--if you don't mind, I am going to undress." Brother Copas withdrew.

He shut and locked the door firmly, and made a pretence, by rattling the key, of withdrawing it from the lock.
But his nerve failed him, and he could not actually withdraw it.
"Suppose the child should be taken ill in the night: or suppose that her nerve breaks down, and she cries for her father.

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