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Excerpt from Mr. Nobody
Even in London a lad had but lately been promised a gratuity for discovering a cave within the iro, n railings Of Leicester Square, in which six or seven sturdy beggars had been accustomed to crouch, smoking their pipes, upon a stone which concealed a number of convenient housebreaking instruments.
SO ignorant was the poor mother of the district through which she was travelling that more than once she retraced her steps. But always a sort of instinct taught her to avoid companionship. If she could get out Of the highway, She preferred the cart-track in the fields, or the path in the copses. More than once a merciful waggoner had offered her a lift, but she invariably had refused by a Shake of the head. Perhaps She was afraid she would have to join in conversation as a return for his hospitality, or perhaps she was aware that even hospitality itself might not be safe. It was possible that she might have heard the tale of how a waggoner lately travelling with goods had been attacked by three fellows in smock-frocks, who knocked him down, severely beating him before they stole his packages, and terrify ing to death a young woman who had been in the waggon during the affray.
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