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"I repeat this conversation exactly as it occurred. I have no

doubt that it is, word for word, the same. I describe everything

exactly as it took place, constraining my mind not to wander from

the task. Where I make the broken marks that follow here, I leave

off for the time, and put my paper in its hiding-place.

*****

"The carriage left the streets behind, passed the North Barrier,

and emerged upon the country road. At two-thirds of a league from

the Barrier--I did not estimate the distance at that time, but

afterwards when I traversed it--it struck out of the main avenue,

and presently stopped at a solitary house, We all three alighted,

and walked, by a damp soft footpath in a garden where a neglected

fountain had overflowed, to the door of the house. It was not

opened immediately, in answer to the ringing of the bell, and one

of my two conductors struck the man who opened it, with his heavy

riding glove, across the face.