"No, sir; all was very still."
"We shall get you off cannily, Dick: and it will be better, both
for your sake, and for that of the poor creature in yonder. I have
striven long to avoid exposure, and I should not like it to come
at last. Here, Carter, help him on with his waist-coat. Where
did you leave your furred cloak? You can't travel a mile without
that, I know, in this damned cold climate. In your room? -- Jane,
run down to Mr. Mason's room, -- the one next mine, -- and fetch
a cloak you will see there."
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