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The rest of Nic.'s fetches to keep John out of Ecclesdown.
Castle.* * Attempts to hinder the cessation, and taking possession of Dunkirk.
When Nic.

could not dissuade John by argument, he tried to move his pity; he pretended to be sick and like to die; that he should leave his wife and children in a starving condition, if John did abandon him; that he was hardly able to crawl about the room, far less capable to look after such a troublesome business as this lawsuit, and therefore begged that his good friend would not leave him.

When he saw that John was still inexorable, he pulled out a case-knife, with which he used to snicker-snee, and threatened to cut his own throat.

Thrice he aimed the knife to his windpipe with a most determined threatening air.