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"No!" returned the spy. "I throw up. I confess that we were so

unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from

England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so

ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all

but for that sham. Though how this man knows it was a sham, is a

wonder of wonders to me."

"Never you trouble your head about this man," retorted the

contentious Mr. Cruncher; "you'll have trouble enough with giving

your attention to that gentleman. And look here! Once more!"--Mr.

Cruncher could not be restrained from making rather an

ostentatious parade of his liberality--"I'd catch hold of your

throat and choke you for half a guinea."