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"I Swear," cried my uncle, "that it shall be so. " And with a big frown and a truculent air he seized the fatal instrument.
"Indeed, brother, it must not," said my father, laying one pale, scholar- like hand mildly on Captain Roland's brown, bellicose, and bony fist, and with the other, outstretched, protecting the menaced, palpitating victim.