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charge, have spurred and goaded me on to this deed, ever since I saw your distress at the fair Gallic needle-monger's. Night and day have they pinched me and jirked me, to seek you, to find you, and to rescue you from that brawny caitiff."—

"Alas! to what purpose? If I have no asylum, what is my security?—"

"If I have erred, my beauteous fugitive," said Sir Jaspar, archly, "I must order the horses to turn about! We shall still, probably, be in time to accompany the happy captive to his cell."

Juliet involuntarily screamed, but besought, at least, to know how she had been traced; and what had induced the other pursuit; or caused the seizure, which she had so unexpectedly witnessed, of her persecutor?

He answered, that, restless to fathom a mystery, the profundity of which left, to his active imagination, as much space for distant hope as for present despair, he had invited Riley to dinner, upon quitting Frith Street; and,

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