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Pelham
Complete

CHAPTER XIX
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He looked with a vacant eye on the long mace, with which the marker had swept away his last hopes, with his last coin, and then, rising, left the room, and disappeared.
The other Englishman was not long in following him.

He uttered a short, low, laugh, unobserved, perhaps, by any one but myself; and, pushing through the atmosphere of sacres and mille tonnerres, which filled that pandaemonium, strode quickly to the door.

I felt as if a load had been taken from my bosom, when he was gone..


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