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Through the Fray

CHAPTER XIV: COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
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I can remember his striking me in the face again and again, and then I heard my mother scream, and everything seems to have become misty.

But I know I was walking about; I know that I was worrying to get at him, and that if I had met him I should have attacked him, and if I had had anything in my hand I should have killed him." "But you don't remember doing anything, Ned?
You cannot recall that you went anywhere and got a rope and fastened it across the road with the idea of upsetting his gig on the way back from the mill ?" "No, sir," Ned said decidedly; "I can't recollect anything of that at all.

I am quite sure if I had done that I should remember it; for I seem to remember, now I think of it, a good deal of what I did.

Yes, I went up through Varley; the lights weren't out, and I wondered what Bill would say if I were to knock at his door and he opened it and saw what a state my face was in.

Then I went out on the moor, and it seems to me that I walked about for hours, and the longer I walked the more angry I was.


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