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"But who is this? thought he, a demon vile. With wicked meaning and a vulgar style; Hammond they call him -- they can give the name Of man to devils. Why am I so tame? Why crush I not the viper? Fear replied, Watch him a while, and let his strength be tried. " CRABBE.
THE next morning, after breakfast, the banker took his horse -- a crop-eared, fast-trotting hackney -- and merely leaving word that he was going upon business into the country, and should not return to dinner, turned his back on the spires of C -- -- .