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CHAPTER XXVI

IN WHICH A MYSTERIOUS

CHARACTER APPEARS

UPON THE SCENE;

AND MANY THINGS,

INSEPARABLE FROM THIS

HISTORY, ARE DONE

AND PERFORMED

he old man had gained the street corner, before he be-
Tgan to recover the effect of Toby Crackit’s intelligence.
He had relaxed nothing of his unusual speed; but was still
pressing onward, in the same wild and disordered manner,
when the sudden dashing past of a carriage: and a boister-
ous cry from the foot passengers, who saw his danger: drove
him back upon the pavement. Avoiding, as much as was
possible, all the main streets, and skulking only through

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