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"That the death warrant's arrived," returned Edgeworth Bess, bursting into a flood of tears; "oh, yes! we've heard it." "How does Jack bear it?" inquired Mrs. Maggot. "Like a hero," answered Austin. "I knew he would," replied the Amazon. "Come Bess, no whimpering. Don't unman him. Are we to see him here?" "Yes, my love." "Well, then, lose no time in bringing him to us," said Mrs. Maggot.
"Finely," says I; "you will be seeing her with the daylight." "Man, I will have been needing that word," says he. "What am I to be calling ye, man?" "Hooch," says he, and his words were sharper and fiercer than of yore. "My father's rank will be good enough for me, but ye will call me Dan McBride and naething else. Major I was in the Low Countries, and the warrant's in my saddle-bags," says he.
"Warrant!" said the jailor, "the warrant's awa to Libberton wi' twa sheriff officers seeking ye. If ye had staid at hame, as honest men should do, ye wad hae seen the warrant; but if ye come to be incarcerated of your ain accord, wha can help it, my jo?" "'So I cannot see Effie Deans, then," said Butler; "and you are determined not to let me out?"
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