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The Garies and Their Friends

CHAPTER XX
19/26

"I'm sorry, very sorry," he continued, limping to the sofa; "I was going out again immediately.

They intend making an attack on Mr.Garie's house: I didn't hear his name mentioned, but I heard one of the men, who appeared to be a ringleader, say, 'We're going up to Winter-street, to give a coat of tar and feathers to a white man, who is married to a nigger woman.' They can allude to none but him.

How annoying that this accident should have happened just now, of all times.

They ought to be warned." "Oh, poor Emily!" cried Esther, bursting into tears; "it will kill her, I know it will; she is so ill.

Some one must go and warn them.


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