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'I do not' Mr Flintwinch, having expelled a long significant breath said, with his

former emphasis, 'For I have accidentally--mind!--found out'

'Wherever she lives,' said Mrs Clenna her words as distinctly as if she were reading

them off from separate bits of metal that she took up one by one, 'she

has made a secret of it, and she shall always keep her secret from me'

'After all, perhaps you would rather not have known the fact, any how?'

said Jeremiah; and he said it with a twist, as if his words had come out

of him in his ory shape 'Flintwinch,' said his y that oad me? Look round this

roo confinement within these

narrow li afflicted; you know I never

co confinement

to this rooe I as that I rudge e it to you,' returned Jeremiah