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Uncle Silas

CHAPTER XVIII
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He shook his head and looked her in the face.
'Pray, who made this key?
It is a new one, and made expressly to pick this lock.' But Madame was not going to tell any more than she had expressly bargained for; so she only fell once more into her old paroxysm of sorrow, self-reproach, extenuation, and entreaty.
'Well,' said my father,' I promised that on surrendering the key you should go.

It is enough.

I keep my word.

You shall have an hour and a half to prepare in.

You must then be ready to depart.


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