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Peveril of the Peak

CHAPTER XXII
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"Seeing and smelling are organs sufficient for such a knave--to hear and tell are things he should have no manner of pretensions to." "I grant you it were well done," answered Smith; "but it were a robbing of the hangman and the pillory; and I am an honest fellow, who would give Dun[*] and the devil his due.

So, 'All joy to great Caesar, Long life, love, and pleasure; May the King live for ever, 'Tis no matter for us, boys.'" [*] Dun was the hangman of the day at Tyburn.

He was successor of Gregory Brunden, who was by many believed to be the same who dropped the axe upon Charles I., though others were suspected of being the actual regicide.
While this Bacchanalian scene proceeded, Julian had wrapt himself closely in his cloak, and stretched himself on the couch which they had shown him.

He looked towards the table he had left--the tapers seemed to become hazy and dim as he gazed--he heard the sound of voices, but they ceased to convey any impression to his understanding; and in a few minutes, he was faster asleep than he had ever been in the whole course of his life..


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