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CONFESSIONS OF A THUG.
CHAPTER IV.
1st Murderer.—How dost thou feel thyself now
2nd Murderer.—Faith, some dregs of conscience are yet within me.—Richard III., act i. scene 4.
2nd Murderer.—
...... I am one, my liege,
Have so incensed, that I am reckless what
I do to spite the world.—Macbeth, act iii. scene 1.
The day after my adventure with the tiger, I left our village with my father. We travelled on horseback, and on the fourth morning afterwards reached Sheopoor, the town from which the grand expedition was to set out. It was here, too, that I was to be admitted into the band of Thugs, and I looked forward to my inauguration with much impatience, and per-
