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like a pudding without fat, you have indeed done my daughter a kindneſs in recovering her health, but I'll never con- ſent ſhe shall be your wife.

This enraged Beateman, who upbraid- ed the old man. Mean time in ruſhes German with his drawn ſword, and made a paſs at him, but he put it aſide and wounded him in the breaſt, ſo that

he fell as dead to the ground, whereupon Beateman made his eſcape, to conſider What was beſt to be done.

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