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Excerpt from The Select Circulating Library, 1833, Vol. 2: Containing the Best Popular Literature, Including Memoirs, Biography, Novels, Tales, Travels, Voyages, &C
You respect your word, and have pledged yourself to secrecy What mean you, man, by this rhodomontade 1 To whom can you have pledged yourself, and for what, unless it be to some secret enemy without the walls? Gentlemen, proceed to your duty: it is evident that the man is a traitor, even from his own admission. On my life. He pursued, more hurriedly, and speaking in an under tone, as if to himself, the fellow has been bribed by, and is connected with The name escaped not his lips; for, aware of the emotion he was betraying, he suddenly checked himself, and assumed his wonted stem and authoritative bearing.
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