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"I had nothing to do with it! By the God that made me! by the -- "
"O sir, pray don't talk in that way. I never said -- I -- I never / thought -- no, no; things would have been different, must have been / different, if I had. " And the flush on Mrs. Bainbridge's pale cheeks / (she was a sickly-looking woman) grew deeper still, through the violence / of her protest.