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"_Beaucoup de bruit, pas de mal! _" Vaughan muttered in his neighbour's ear; and saw with as much surprise as pleasure that she understood.
And all would have gone well but for the imprudence of the inside passenger who had distinguished himself by his protest against the placard. The coach was within a dozen paces of the Bear, the crowd was falling back from it, the peril, if it had been real, seemed past, the most timid was breathing again, when he thrust out his foolish head, and flung a taunt-which those on the roof could not hear-at the rabble.