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The two Englishmen to whom we have referred -- Sir Jasper Dehorsey and Mr. Tom Hawksleigh -- saw how Cadbury and Alison were for the time hopelessly separated by the pleasure-seeking crowd, and hastened at once to improve the occasion by taking advantage of the confusion and of her excessive dismay.
After a word or two of hasty instructions whispered to his friend, Sir Jasper approached Alison, and said, with a profound bow,