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Title: Master Humphrey's clock
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, ill Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
Subjects: Gordon Riots, 1780
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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he other way ! I see him now,* rejoined the locksmith, pointing—yonder—there—there is hisshadow passing by that light. What—who isthis? Let me go. Come back, come back ! exclaimed the woman, wrestling with and clasp-ing him ; Do not touch him on your life. I charge you, come back. Hecarries other lives besides his own. Come back ! What does this mean ? cried the locksmith. No matter what it means, dont ask, dont speak, dont think about it.He is not to be followed, checked, or stopped. Come back ! The old man looked at her in wonder, as she writhed and clung about him ;and, borne down by her passion, suffered her to drag him into the house. Itwas not until she had chained and double-locked the door, fastened every boltand bar with the heat and fury of a maniac, and drawn him back into theroom, that she turned upon him once again that stony look of horror, and,sinking down into a chair, covered her face, and shuddered, as though the handof death were on her. 0=- ^ffA :>PJ;^C\
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