[Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookLittle Dorrit CHAPTER 11 19/24
Remember that.
Not the other.' 'Altro, altro! Not Ri--' Before John Baptist could finish the name, his comrade had got his hand under his chin and fiercely shut up his mouth. 'Death! what are you doing? Do you want me to be trampled upon and stoned? Do YOU want to be trampled upon and stoned? You would be.
You don't imagine that they would set upon me, and let my prison chum go? Don't think it!' There was an expression in his face as he released his grip of his friend's jaw, from which his friend inferred that if the course of events really came to any stoning and trampling, Monsieur Lagnier would so distinguish him with his notice as to ensure his having his full share of it.
He remembered what a cosmopolitan gentleman Monsieur Lagnier was, and how few weak distinctions he made. 'I am a man,' said Monsieur Lagnier, 'whom society has deeply wronged since you last saw me.
You know that I am sensitive and brave, and that it is my character to govern.
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