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out sharp—see?—or I'll l'arn you! There's a carriage awaiting for you."
He stepped out; there was nothing else to be done. They had taken the cloak from his eyes now, and he saw presently that they were nearing a coster's barrow.
They laid him in the barrow, covered him with the cloak, and put vegetable marrows and cabbages on that. They only left him a little room to breathe.
"Now lie still for your life!" said the second voice. "If you stir a inch I'll lick you till you can't stand! And now you know."
So he lay still, rigid with misery and despair. For neither of these voices was strange to him. He knew them both only two well.
