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Now, I myself experienced no wrong 

 from this person and though I was his 

 stepping-stone to fortune, it is not for 

 me to judge how he was enabled to take 

 that step. The first time I saw him, 

 when he was not in very good odour 

 with his fortune or his friends, was in 

 a bookseller's shop I frequented. On one 

 occasion, a stranger a traveller, I suppose 

 came in, and, eyeing this gentleman 

 as he made his exit, asked his name. 

 On being told 



"Ah, I thought so," he said; "I 

 thought I remembered him as one of 

 eleven that ran away from a school at 

 Durham, and out of the eleven seven 

 have been hung." 



This might have been a little jeu 

 tfesprit of the stranger's, but I do not 

 forget it ; for he was a North country- 

 man, and might have fallen under the 

 designation of a Yorkshire tyke, had 



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