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Put Yourself in His Place

CHAPTER XVI
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I shall commit you.

You will be taken to Hillsborough to-morrow; to-night you will remain in my strong-room.

Fling him down a mattress and some blankets, and give him plenty to eat and drink; I wouldn't starve the devil on old Christmas Eve.

There, take him away.
Stop; search his pockets before you leave him alone." Cole was taken away, and Henry's turn came.
Just before this examination commenced, Grace clasped her hands, and cast a deprecating look on Henry, as much as to say, "Be moderate." And then her eyes roved to and fro, and the whole woman was in arms, and on the watch.
Mr.Raby began on him.

"As for you, your offense is not so criminal in the eye of the law; but it is bad enough; you have broken into a church by unlawful means; you have turned it into a smithy, defiled the graves of the dead, and turned the tomb of a good knight into an oven, to the scandal of men and the dishonor of god.


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