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The Romany Rye

CHAPTER IV
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how you came to know my name is a fact quite inexplicable--farewell! to you both." He then arose; and without further salutation departed from the dingle, in which I never saw him again.

"How, in the name of wonder, came you to know that man's name ?" said Belle, after he had been gone some time.
"I, Belle?
I knew nothing of the fellow's name, I assure you." "But you mentioned his name." "If I did, it was merely casually, by way of illustration.

I was saying how frequently cunning people were mistaken in their calculations, and I adduced the case of old Fraser, of Lovat, as one in point; I brought forward his name, because I was well acquainted with his history, from having compiled and inserted it in a wonderful work, which I edited some months ago, entitled 'Newgate Lives and Trials,' but without the slightest idea that it was the name of him who was sitting with us; he, however, thought that I was aware of his name.

Belle! Belle! for a long time I doubted in the truth of Scripture, owing to certain conceited discourses which I had heard from certain conceited individuals, but now I begin to believe firmly; what wonderful texts there are in Scripture, Belle! 'The wicked trembleth where--where.

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