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"Who was your accomplice who came for the ring which I advertised?"
He opened it in the light of the coach-lamp on that side, and read--first to himself and then aloud: "'Wait at Dover for Mam'selle.'
Without directly answering to this appeal, she sat so still when he had very gently raised her, and the hands that had not ceased to clasp his wrists were so much more steady than they had been, that she communicated some reassurance to Mr. Jarvis Lorry.
Mr. Lorry got his arm securely round the daughter's waist, and held her; for he felt that she was sinking.
